Posts tagged “Australia”

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. Underneath all, simmered a curious news story of surprise to most Australians. For within a few hours’ time,…

Categories: Covid-19, Leadership, World Affairs

Tagged: Andrew Clennell, Australia, Covid-19, Daniel Andrews, New Zealand, Peta Credlin, Politics, Trans-Tasman Bubble, Victoria

Australia Must Wait for the Trump Covid-19 Reality Show

Adam Parker

Posted on May 2, 2020

He didn’t take it seriously at first, nor did his chief medical officer but thankfully six weeks after instigating the lockdown and isolation of Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison had slowed the rate of his nation’s Covid-19 infection. Indeed, it took a measure of cajoling to summon both men into action—particularly the early threats by the premiers of Victoria and New South Wales to go it alone. Yet, soon after that attempted coup, Australia had the closest thing to a wartime government in place—a National Cabinet meeting regularly and voicing the same message. Still, without the pushing of Victoria’s Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton, in particular Australia’s creep to Level 3 containment—the point at which it finally put itself into an effective lockdown—would have…

Categories: Covid-19, World Affairs

Tagged: Australia, Covid-19, COVIDapp, Donald Trump, Lockdown, Scott Morrison, Wave 2

States Cannot Fight Wars of National Existence—How Australia is Losing Control of the Covid-19 Fight

Adam Parker

Posted on March 22, 2020

You cannot wage a war by committee. It takes one national leader and one national vision for victory. In that vision there can only be a single national strategy. That strategy is then devolved to the national armies, their corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, companies, platoons and squads. Armies cannot change national strategy. Armies cannot make a separate national peace. In that way, nations die. Similarly, the Australian Federal Government cannot devolve its vision for fighting the national threat of Covid-19 to the Australian States. As of this Sunday afternoon we have Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory at odds with themselves and the Federal Government—in vision, strategy and tactics. Meanwhile Western Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory watch…

Categories: Covid-19, Military, World Affairs

Tagged: Australia, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Strategy, War

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When Marketing Popped a Trans-Tasman Bubble Stunt

Adam Parker

Posted on October 19, 2020

Australia Must Wait for the Trump Covid-19 Reality Show

Adam Parker

Posted on May 2, 2020

States Cannot Fight Wars of National Existence—How Australia is Losing Control of the Covid-19 Fight

Adam Parker

Posted on March 22, 2020

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