Commission in dark over vaccine trial documents

THE commission inquiring into secret vaccine trials has said it remains in the dark about what to do with a room full of files, amid calls for an independent inquiry into how children were tested.

A legal challenge nearly seven years ago effectively closed down an inquiry into the testing of vaccines.

The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, which originally headed up the vaccine inquiry, said yesterday: “We have no legal authority with the documents other than just to return them. We have everything catalogued and ready to go when the department decides what it wants done with it.”