Now that the Australian coronavirus ‘curve’ seems to be flattening1, we run the risk of becoming complacent, or even worse, having disgraceful ignoramuses like Alan Jones2, assorted other Murdoch hacks3,…
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Weird drivel is expected from some of the far right in the US, and in this pandemic, microphone bully Glen Beck did not disappoint, when he said that old people…
Now with the numbers of COVID-19 cases in Australia well over 5,300, and despite the rate of growth of recorded cases starting to ease off, the number of new cases…
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…
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…
The village idiot of the National Party, the Beetrooter (Barnaby Joyce), has stated, on Sky News (I don’t subscribe because I am not a moron), that we need a ‘reality…