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The Locked-up Country
Shahar HameiriTom Chodor
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Learning the Lessons from Australia’s COVID-19 Response
出版Univ. of Queensland Press, 2023-10-31
主題History / Australia & New ZealandPolitical Science / World / Australian & Oceanian
ISBN07022674739780702267475
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=34bwEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.