/377/ The Locked-Up Country ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor

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:

• Was the pandemic another success for the 'lucky country'?
• How was the Australian state transformed from the 1970s to the 2020s?
• Why was Australia's pandemic planning inadequate?
• What was up with the hotel-based quarantines?
• Why did the public largely support these measure?
• And what can the rest of the world learn from the experience?