Responding to the spike in unemployment caused by the coronavirus epidemic (and measures to combat it), Scott Morrison put the economy into hibernation this week. He didn’t say for sure when it would come out. That’s the $320bn question.
More than two-thirds of Australia’s mineral exports go to China, along with more than a quarter of its agricultural products and a third of its wine.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome 2003. Pneumonic plague 2009. Coronavirus 2020. Avian flu just about every other year. Why does it seem like the next virus apocalypse is always coming from China? Compared with other developing countries, China has a highly effective public health service. It has world-class epidemiological laboratories. Its…
The northern half of the South China Sea is quickly becoming a Chinese lake, but the south half can be kept open if Australia and its neighbours show a little more resolve.
They may as well rename it the Sydney Strife Prize. Or, more aspirationally, the Sydney Popularity Prize.
Australian democracy under threat? Don’t believe a word of it.
With the full support of many of their teachers, headmasters and principals, children (and recent-but-no-longer children) around the country are being urged to take the day off school to save the planet by “sacrificing our educations to save our futures from dangerous climate change,” as the strike website puts it.
Australians might benefit from listening more, too.
