Adam Creighton, the supposed economics editor of Murdoch’s The Australian, pontificated about the coronavirus pandemic, in a tweet, in which he said: “This deliberate economic and social catastrophe is unnecessary….
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The Diamond Princess was the cruise ship quarantined in Japanese waters after one person who disembarked in Hong Kong tested positive for COVID-19. The outbreak on the ship has been…
Only now, hopefully not too late, we are beginning to understand that all that stands between us and the plague’s most horrifying effects is good government, something which we have sought to destroy for some decades, deriding it, dismissing it, downsizing it, underfunding it, and, as witnessed when the Morrison government returned to power, hectoring and bullying it.
And so we reap our bitter harvest.
A system of thought, an idea of the state, a way of running nations, a grossly unequal economy, all that began 40 years ago with Margaret Thatcher’s declaration that there is no such thing as society, must end with the way we respond to this deadly virus.
In Australia, by far the largest single group of people whose source of COVID-19 infection is known, are those infected during overseas travel1. We have known this ever since the…
For the third time in as many weeks, the supermarket down the road had absolutely no toilet paper. Neither were there any tissues, paper hand towels, soap, hand sanitiser or…
I expect that, like most people, I am very concerned about the possibility of contracting the COVID-19 disease from the SARS-Cov-2 virus. The death rate for my age group (60-69)…
Microphone bully Alan Jones clearly thinks himself a genius because, in addition to believing he knows more than all the climate scientists on the planet, now he is telling epidemiologists…
If the battle cry of our government’s response to the global financial crisis was “go early, go hard, go households”, this government’s approach to the current crisis seems to be “go late, go half-measures, and go ... well ... go to Hillsong”. For a decade we have been accused of having gone too far in our efforts to avoid the GFC. When we look back on the decisions taken over the last month, they will be seen (as with the bushfires) as the mark of a complacent and negligent government.
One simple question epitomised the lack of ability of the current government in dealing with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. On the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s ‘Insiders’ program on Sunday morning, David Speers…