The calculation error in COVID-19 projections made by the Peter Doherty Institute and incorporated into the National Cabinet response revealed yesterday was preventable and foreseeable — and now demands a national response.
This error, which has damaged Australians’ lives and livelihoods through unnecessarily severe lockdowns, is the warning the governments of Australia needed to change their governance processes and make them more inclusive and open.
Back on June 8, a letter signed by 30 public intellectuals, including 15 professors of relevant disciplines, one of whom is an advisor on health and well-being economics to the British government, drew the attention of the...
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