This eminent lawyer has serious concerns about the commission the Prime Minister has set up to oversee Australia’s economic recovery from COVID-19 — as well as the broader drift away from normal parliamentary functioning and oversight in the face of the crisis. “The major problem is that we are a parliamentary democracy and government gets its legitimacy from the people via the parliament,” Justice White told the ABC. “We have seen very limited sittings of parliament and we have next to no oversight, except via public press conferences, of what decisions are being made by executive government in our name.”