Comment / Covid-19 radar: strike three for the 'lucky country' down under

Australia’s reputation as “The Lucky Country” has been bruised recently.

We’ve endured two disasters already this year, with the first already slipping from view. Australia’s 2019/2020 bush fire crisis saw whole swathes of the country ablaze and more than one billion animals and organisms incinerated.

A hard act to follow, and yet, enter Covid-19…

Thankfully, we seem to have been remarkably fortunate, compared with colleagues’ accounts in the initial European epicentre and later the UK. Compared with these horrendous scenarios, we’ve done well ...