Pollies vs science: Senate’s excess deaths inquiry is an ideologically driven waste of time
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As some of you following the news may know, the Australian Senate is currently holding an inquiry into excess mortality.
It sounds important and you could be fooled into thinking it is — that it’s an examination into the lives that could be saved with better funding of general practice or public health initiatives.