{"id":20005,"date":"2020-04-23T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/?p=20005"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:55:12","slug":"covid-19-australia-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/2020\/04\/covid-19-australia-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia – The Lucky Country Again? Examining Australia’s Pandemic Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sophia Gaston, Director of the British Foreign Policy Group, speaks to former political journalist Prof. Mark Kenny of the ANU about Australia’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss Australia’s structural advantages entering the crisis, the political context for the government’s response, and how Australia might be facing a coveted, but lonely, position due to its resilience.<\/p>\n

Professor Mark Kenny<\/strong> came to the Australian National University after a high-profile journalistic career culminating in 6 years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times. He is a fixture on the ABC’s\u00a0Insiders\u00a0<\/em>program, Sky News\u00a0Agenda<\/em>, and is a sought after commentator on radio programs across the country. Mark is a director of the National Press Club. He was\u00a0made a Visiting Fellow at ANU in 2018 and took up a full-time academic post at the Australian Studies Institute in January, 2019.<\/p>\n

A video of the discussion can be found below. To learn more about upcoming events and research, please sign up to our newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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