do the states have to obey the COVID national plan?

  • Written by: Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
do the states have to obey the COVID national plan?AAP/Lukas Coch

In August 2021, the national cabinet agreed to a National Plan to transition Australia’s National COVID-19 Response. It was based upon epidemiological modelling of the Delta variant by the Doherty Institute. It sets out four phases, with phase B starting when about 70% of those aged 16 and over are fully vaccinated, and phase...

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