https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gdvfw-150dbff
On Australia’s lockdown.
We welcome back Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor to talk about their new book, The Locked-Up Country, to try to learn some lessons from Australia’s response to Covid-19. We also talk about the country’s recent Indigenous Voice referendum and ask whether it was Oz’s “Brexit Moment”.
In the episode we ask:
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Was the pandemic another success for the ‘lucky country’?
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How was the Australian state transformed from the 1970s to the 2020s?
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Why was Australia’s pandemic planning inadequate?
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What was up with the hotel-based quarantines?
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Why did the public largely support these measure?
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And what can the rest of the world learn from the experience?
Aufhebunga Bunga 