That first Anzac Day in 1915, Australians fought alongside New Zealanders and the British across a peninsula called Gallipoli thrust at the heart of the Ottoman Empire in World War 1. It was a good strategy with a sound purpose. But political incompetence turned it into a disaster.
They’ll be packing 85,000 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this coming Sunday, Anzac Day, for a game of Australian Rules Football.
Tagged: AstraZeneca, Australia, Covid-19, Covidshield, India, Oxygen, Pfizer, Vaccines
There’s an urban myth that when it comes to painting Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge once you start you never stop. While that’s not completely true, painting does conform to a schedule. That’s how you stop the rust and rot. And it’s a simile only now being thrust on the world in the vaccine fight against Covid-19.
Tagged: AstraZeneca, Covid-19, Leadership, Pfizer, Planning, Vaccination
The cocks crowed in Canberra greeting the dawn that crisp Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Here a federal government lay caught in a crisis of alleged rapes and misogyny its feather ruffling sweeping attention away from what should otherwise have been its prime concern: the nation’s existential fight against Covid-19.
Tagged: AstraZeneca, Australia, Covid-19, Pfizer, Phase1b, Vaccination
Victorians. Today you are the world’s first people who have faced and defeated a Covid-19 Wave 2 with statistical validation.
A Facebook post by my wife today set it off. It was about this morning’s Covid-19 announcement by the premier of Victoria of a delay in reopening Melbourne’s retail sector due to a new outbreak in its northern suburbs whose extent had yet been fully defined.
Tagged: Covid-19, Covidiots, Mental Health, Social Media, Suicide, Victoria
Friday, October 16, dawned as a day of political tumult in Australia. Sky News Australia political editor Andrew Clennell had been pushing for the resignation of New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian over an alleged visa and land corruption scandal, whose boyfriend and disgraced State minister was about to give a final day of testimony before an ICAC probe—while Sky’s Peta Credlin, a former chief of staff to a disgraced prime minister and now tagged as a Liberal Party hopeful, bayed for the blood of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews over alleged cover-ups in a failed Covid-19 hotel quarantine program that had sparked Australia’s Covid-19 Wave 2.
History is written by the victors. I want to congratulate all Victorian and Melburnian retailers; all service and hospitality providers in Australia’s second-most populous State on your Step 3 lockdown reopening, due October 26 to November 2.
I spent a big part of yesterday writing an article calling for the resignation of Daniel Andrews, premier of Australia’s second-most populous State, Victoria. It’s done, it’s ready. But I’m not going to publish it yet.
It’s 50-50 now whether Melbourne, Australia, will move into Step 3 lockdown—what I call the “Step of Freedom”—on October 19th (or October 26th as originally planned).
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