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Panic, parochialism, pissantery and pigheadedness: pandemics in Australian history

3 April 2020

5:00 PM

3 April 2020

5:00 PM

An incurable disease … highly contagious… those struck down by it shunned by neighbours and friends… its cause unknown … the death toll rising. A description advanced during the AIDS epidemic but one that also fits virtually every epidemic and pandemic that we have experienced over the last 200 years including the current coronavirus outbreak. 

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