When the renowned British economist John Maynard Keynes was asked what he did when the facts changed, he replied: ‘I change my mind. What do you do?’ I’m not sure whether Prime Minister Scott Morrison …
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A new layer of snow has settled atop the iciness of Australia’s relations with China. Beijing and Canberra bite and bicker over Covid-19. The words are hot but they speak of frigid relations. The diplomatic …
‘This is not a discrete one-off episode’, warned Jeremy Farrar, the head of Wellcome Trust, a global health research foundation. ‘[T]his is now an endemic human infection.’ Covid-19, as Farrar suggests, knows no boundaries, geographic, …
In the years leading up to the global Covid-19 crisis, Australia, like many countries, failed to heed health specialists’ warnings on the likelihood and consequences of a global pandemic. Critical pandemic readiness was an insurance …
Africa is no stranger to epidemics and public health crises. Ebola is estimated to have killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa in 2014–16, and more recently claimed over 2,000 lives in the eastern …