Locked-up Country (eBook)

Learning the Lessons from Australia's COVID-19 Response

Tom Chodor, Shahar Hameiri (Autoren)

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2023
University of Queensland Press (Verlag)
978-0-7022-6756-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Donald Horne famously called Australia ' the lucky country' . So how did we become the locked-up country and how might the future look different? Australia has changed enormously since Horne' s 1960s, but its response to the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the enduring truth of his thesis that our ' luck' was undeserved and wouldn' t last. By closing its borders and imposing a nationally coordinated lockdown, Australia unexpectedly eliminated COVID-19 in 2020, achieving one of the world' s lowest excess mortality rates. But as governments proceeded to bungle key planks of the pandemic response, by mid-2021, Australia was ' locked up' - closed off to the world and fragmented along state and territory borders, with its major cities enduring repeated and extended lockdowns. It soon became clear that Australia' s regulatory state had let us down. But these failures were not inevitable, and we can manage future crises more successfully. In The Locked-up Country, political experts Tom Chodor and Shahar Hameiri identify the source of Australia' s recent challenges and suggest a better way forward.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-7022-6756-2 / 0702267562
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7022-6756-7 / 9780702267567