My contribution to Arena, now online in the September 2021 issue/
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Paying for the Pandemic
My contribution to the latest issue of Arena Quarterly I’m checking about online access.
Here’s my latest …
What about other avoidable deaths? …
… Should we really learn to live with Covid?
That’s the headline and standfirst for my latest piece in Inside Story. It’s an expansion of my previous response to the kind of whataboutery offered by Gladys Berejklian, saying ““outside of a pandemic, we lose between 600 and 800 people every year to the flu.”
Read there, comment here.
Dismembering government …
… New public management and why the Commonwealth government can’t do anything anymore. That’s the headline for a piece I’ve written for The Monthly.
Read there, discuss here
Sandpit
A new sandpit for long side discussions, conspiracy theories, idees fixes and so on.
To be clear, the sandpit is for regular commenters to pursue points that distract from regular discussion, including conspiracy-theoretic takes on the issues at hand. It’s not meant as a forum for visiting conspiracy theorists, or trolls posing as such.
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Do vaccination passports take away freedoms? …
… It depends on how you frame the question
That’s the headline for my latest piece in The Conversation . The key idea, drawn from behavioral economics and psychology is that of framing, developed by Kahneman and Tversky.
More to come on this soon …
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