The College welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the COVID-19 Royal Commission and we are inviting Australian paramedics to share your suggestions, insights and views.

Our aim is to prepare a response that echoes the collective voice of our Australian members and the wider paramedic profession, and your views will be used anonymously in our submission.

The COVID-19 Royal Commission is a public consultation, and we encourage you to also submit your own individual responses should you choose to do so. You can view the consultation page here.

Information from the COVID-19 Royal Commission consultation page:

On 19 October 2023, the Senate referred an inquiry into the appropriate terms of reference for a COVID-19 Royal Commission that would allow all affected stakeholders to be heard to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 31 March 2024.

Terms of Reference: The appropriate terms of reference for a COVID-19 Royal Commission that would allow all affected stakeholders to be heard.

The College survey will remain open until Sunday 10 December. This will allow us time to prepare our submission to the public consultation which closes 12 January 2024. Questions in this College survey reflect the premise of the COVID-19 Royal Commission.

If you have any further queries relating to this survey, please email policy@paramedics.org.

If this survey has raised any concerns for you or you are currently experiencing any distress, please contact one of the following health and wellbeing support services who can provide you with assistance:

Health at Work: College members can access Health at Work here.

Fortem Australia: This not-for-profit organisation that supports the mental health and wellbeing of first responder families can be accessed here.

Take the survey here.