Australia and COVID-19: cracks in the Commonwealth

Charles Hawksley; Nichole Georgeou

doi:10.4324/9781003311522-8

Australia and COVID-19: cracks in the Commonwealth

Charles Hawksley
, Nichole Georgeou

School of Social Sciences

University of Wollongong

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Abstract

In the chapter on COVID in Australia, Charles Hawksley (University of Wollongong) and Nichole Georgeou (Western Sydney University) explore the problems that eventuated in a wealthy developed state when the federal government did not actually have the emergency powers to manage the pandemic and where individual state and territory governments of Australia led the response to COVID. The Commonwealth government sought to project an image that it was indeed managing events; however, it mismanaged key aspects of the response, in particular the vaccine rollout and the administration of elder care in nursing homes. The chapter also explores the economic response and the unequal enforcement of restrictions in lower-socio-economic status suburbs that were policed more rigorously than in wealthier suburbs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Pandemic, States and Societies in the Asia-Pacific, 2020-2021
Subtitle of host publication	Responding to COVID
Editors	Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	8
Pages	136-161
Number of pages	26
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000985320, 9781003311522
ISBN (Print)	9781032318219, 978032318226
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311522-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

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