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FAULT LINES


AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW INTO
AUSTRALIA’S RESPONSE TO COVID-19




20 October 2022

‘Fault lines: An independent review into Australia’s response to COVID-19’, is
the first independent review of Australia’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The review has found that key groups were excluded from financial support, some
lockdowns and border closures were avoidable and schools should have remained
open. It sounds a warning to governments against the perils of overreach when
dealing with future health crises. Low socio-economic families, women, children,
aged care residents, people with disabilities, temporary migrants, multicultural
communities, and others already experiencing disadvantage bore the brunt of the
pandemic.

Funded by the Paul Ramsay Foundation, the Minderoo Foundation and the John and
Myriam Wylie Foundation, the independent review was chaired by Peter Shergold
AC, with a panel comprising Jillian Broadbent AC, Isobel Marshall and Peter
Varghese AO. The e61 Institute supported the panel through providing substantial
research, data analysis, policy analysis and leading an extensive consultation
process.

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THE PANEL

The independent panel included Peter Shergold AC (Chair), Jillian Broadbent AC,
Isobel Marshall and Peter Varghese AO.




PETER SHERGOLD AC

Peter Shergold was for 20 years a senior executive in the Australian Public
Service, including five years as Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister
and Cabinet. He is presently Chancellor of Western Sydney University. Peter
chairs a range of public, private and community organisations, including Opal
HealthCare, the NSW Education Standards Authority, Joblife, the James Martin
Institute for Public Policy, and the AMP Foundation . He is the NSW Coordinator
General for Settlement and sits on the Board of Australia for UNHCR.

JILLIAN BROADBENT AC

Jillian Broadbent is a director at Macquarie Group Limited. She was Chancellor
of the University of Wollongong and the inaugural Chair of the Clean Energy
Finance Corporation. She has served on the Boards of the Reserve Bank of
Australia, Woolworths Limited, Swiss Re Life and Health Australia Limited, ASX
Limited, Special Broadcasting Corporation, Qantas Airways Limited, Westfield
Property Trusts, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Coca-Cola Amatil Limited. She
was a Panel Member of APRA’s Prudential Inquiry into Commonwealth Bank of
Australia’s governance, culture and accountability. Jillian is on the board of
the Sydney Dance Company, and was a board member of National Portrait Gallery,
Sydney Theatre Company, NIDA, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and the Art
Gallery of NSW. In 2019 Jillian was made a Companion of the Order of Australia
for her contribution to corporate, financial, clean energy and cultural
organisations, to higher education and to women in business.

ISOBEL MARSHALL

Isobel Marshall was awarded the 2021 Young Australian of The Year award for her
work co-founding TABOO, a social enterprise dedicated to ending period poverty.
Throughout the last 5 years of growing the business, Isobel has focused on
advocating for reproductive healthcare and gender equality with a goal of
reforming the social and structural factors that perpetuate period poverty.
Through this work, TABOO has championed the role of business in finding
sustainable solutions to social and environmental issues. Having stepped back
from this role, Isobel is now focused on her medical studies at The University
of Adelaide. She is also a member of the Premier’s Council for Women; a council
dedicated to providing leadership and advice to the South Australian Government
in respect to the needs and interests of women.

PETER VARGHESE AO

Peter Varghese is in his second term as Chancellor of The University of
Queensland. He has served previously as Secretary of the Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade, High Commissioner to India, High Commissioner to Malaysia,
Director-General of Australia’s peak intelligence agency, the Office of National
Assessments, and Senior Advisor (International) to the Prime Minister. Mr
Varghese was the author in 2018 of a comprehensive India Economic Strategy to
2035 commissioned by the Australian Prime Minister. Mr Varghese sits on the
boards of CARE Australia and North Queensland Airports and chairs Asialink’s
advisory council. He sits on the international governing board of the Rajaratnam
School of International Studies in Singapore and has been an advisor to several
companies on international affairs.

SECRETARIAT – E61 INSTITUTE

The Independent Panel was supported by the e61 Institute which undertook
consultations, research and analysis to support the Review. The e61 Institute is
a not-for-profit economic research institute. The Institute combines innovative
data with state-of-the-art tools from economics, data science and statistics to
answer the most important economic questions facing Australia. The e61 Institute
was born from a motivation to bring together problem-solvers from academia,
industry and government to push the knowledge frontier so that we can tackle the
big problems facing our society.