The Locked-Up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia’s COVID-19 Response - Couverture souple

Chodor, Tom; Hameiri, Shahar

 
9780702266379: The Locked-Up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia’s COVID-19 Response
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 070226637X ISBN 13 : 9780702266379
Editeur : University of Queensland Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Shahar Hameiri is Professor of International Politics at the University of Queensland. An expert on security and development in Asia, Shahar has authored several books, including Fractured China (co-authored with Lee Jones), published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Shahar has also written extensively on the politics of global health security. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Shahar directed his attention towards understanding the response back home in Australia. The result is his latest book, The Locked-up Country, co-authored with Dr Tom Chodor.

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Éditeur
University of Queensland Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
070226637X
ISBN 13 
9780702266379
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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