- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The norms of everyday life were often cast aside during the pandemic years. States shut their borders, mothballed their economies, and locked down their cities. Individuals put family life, career goals, travel plans – even medical treatments – on hold. In Australia, a Government elected on a platform of neo-libertarian freedom and debt reduction, spent like Keynesians while curtailing even basic freedoms. Some citizens protested but most accepted curfews, mask mandates and the shuttering of schools and workplaces in exchange for the promise of safety.
Across every sphere of life, 'Because Covid' became an accepted shorthand, serving as both a response and rationale for previously unthinkable actions. Yet, it is always a mistake to take such things at face value.
Contributors to this book look beyond the rhetoric of Australia's COVID-19 responses to consider where the pandemic has taken us as a nation. We examine economic policy, bioethics, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, global supply chains, public value science, violence against women, the experiences of Indigenous communities, news media practices, the arts sector, historical precedents, and more. What can we learn about managing future risks? What are the consequences, intended or not, of particular policy interventions? Are there new opportunities as normalisation kicks in? Our goal is to offer broad-ranging insights into the Australian experience at the very time the nation is beginning to learn how to live with COVID-19.
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Table of contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- 1. The Australian pandemic experience
- 2. History, the pandemic and the future
- 3. Public value science outcomes: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
- 4. JobKeeper: A critical analysis
- 5. Bioethics after COVID-19: Should we embrace a political turn?
- 6. The disruption of consumption
- 7. The arts, music and the pandemic
- 8. ‘Ten footies, one small saltie’: The Northern Territory experience and the shadow pandemic
- 9. The impact of News Corporation scepticism on the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study from Victoria, June–August 2020
- 10. Australia and forced displacement: A new research agenda?
- Conclusions