The Institute for Public Affairs released a cost-benefit analysis of Australian covid lockdowns the day after mine with Sanjeev Sabhlok was published, and the IPA’s analysis reached the same conclusion as we did: that the lockdowns were not worth their gargantuan costs.  Covid policy has started to be reviewed overseas as well (also see here), though I expect it will

Positive recent signs in the political realm include covid-excused restrictions being rolled back in New Zealand, and Denmark walking back even the recommendation (much less requirement) for healthy people under 50 to receive the covid shots. AstraZeneca has been attacked in the European Parliament (also see here), materials that could

After a refreshing, informative and productive trip to North America, I’m back in Sydney and heartened at the growing evidence that both in the US and in Australia, the errors of covid-era policymaking are coming into focus for more people by the day. In the US, as Team Sanity

On this past Thursday’s ABC Q&A Pre-Election Special, I spoke about the cost-benefit analysis of Australia’s covid lockdowns that I have produced with the great help of ex-Victorian Treasury economist Sanjeev Sabhlok, and just released last week.  The Executive Summary is enough for most readers, but if you have an appetite for the whole

The residual covid-excused restrictions on our freedoms have still not been lifted here in Australia, despite several other countries to which we regularly compare ourselves walking back their restrictions. Not only are some countries (like Germany) erasing their domestic restrictions as the political climate continues to shift, but it

We are starting to see mainstream figures edge away from the conviction that freedom restrictions as the right response to covid, including the White House and the American NFL. Several countries in Europe have significantly walked back pandemic restrictions, including the UK (whose national health system has scrapped its vax mandate for health workers, citing staff shortages)

Things have been heating up fast, on both sides of this fight of our lives.  Australia’s incompetent, inhumane, hyper-politicised, multi-headed covidocracy has embarrassed the country on the world stage via its treatment of the world’s number one men’s tennis player. The reactions of the Australian public to this debacle have