Rex Patrick (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I'll take that as a no. Would you agree that any future inquiries into the government's COVID-19 pandemic response, whether they be a royal commission or whether they be other forms of inquiry, will require full, unrestricted access to the records of Commonwealth departments and agencies? Accordingly, will the government direct the Director-General of the Archives to immediately issue, under the Archives Act, a records retention notice to all departments and agencies, prohibiting them from destroying Commonwealth records or hard copies of documents relating to the COVID-19 pandemic?