The Locked-up Country

Name: The Locked-up Country
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Learning the Lessons from Australia's Covid-19 Response

By Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor

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The Locked-up Country by Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor delves into the political landscape of Australia, examining how its handling of security, migration, and trade has shaped its identity. The authors explore Australia's approach to maintaining sovereignty and security through a detailed analysis of political strategies and policies. This insightful book offers a contemporary look at the intricate relationship between national interests and global pressures.
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The Locked-up Country

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A timely analysis of Australia's response to the pandemic, which asks what have we learned?

Donald Horne famously called Australia 'the lucky country'. So how did we become the locked-up country and how might the future look different?

Australia has changed enormously since Horne's 1960s, but its response to the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the enduring truth of his thesis that our 'luck' was undeserved and wouldn't last. By closing its borders and imposing a nationally coordinated lockdown, Australia unexpectedly eliminated COVID-19 in 2020, achieving one of the world's lowest excess mortality rates.

But as governments proceeded to bungle key planks of the pandemic response, by mid-2021, Australia was 'locked up'—closed off to the world and fragmented along state and territory borders, with its major cities enduring repeated and extended lockdowns. It soon became clear that Australia's regulatory state had let us down. But these failures were not inevitable, and we can manage future crises more successfully.

In The Locked-up Country, political experts Tom Chodor and Shahar Hameiri identify the source of Australia's recent challenges and suggest a better way forward.

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The Locked-up Country is praised for offering insightful perspectives on government authority and accountability. Highlighted as essential reading, it discusses the necessary reforms to ensure safety and credible governance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780702266379

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: University of Queensland Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 227.0mm

Weight: 288g

Pages: 256

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Australian & Pacific History Education & Reference History & Military Non-Fiction Penguin Books Politics & Current Affairs Shahar Hameiri Tom Chodor

About the Author

Shahar Hameiri is Professor of International Politics at the University of Queensland. An expert on security and development in Asia, Shahar has authored several books, including Fractured China (co-authored with Lee Jones), published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Shahar has also written extensively on the politics of global health security. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Shahar directed his attention towards understanding the response back home in Australia. The result is his latest book, The Locked-up Country, co-authored with Dr Tom Chodor. Tom Chodor is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. His research focuses on the global governance of the global economy, and the role of private actors in contributing to and contesting global policy agendas. He has published articles in Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Globalizations and Global Governance, and is the author of Neoliberal Hegemony and The Pink Tide in Latin America, and co-author of Unravelling the Crime-Development Nexus.