Alexander Downer

Prison island: Australia’s Covid fortress has become a jail

issue 28 August 2021

Australians have a reputation for rugged individualism, grit and competence. But when it comes to the pandemic, we have seen another side to my country: insecure, anxious and frozen by the fear of death from Covid. A recent global poll found that Australians more worried about the virus than any other western country.

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Alexander Downer

Alexander Downer is chairman of trustees at the Policy Exchange, former minister for foreign affairs and former Australian High Commissioner to the UK.

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