When New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet announced the re-opening of the state he said: ‘We can’t remain a hermit kingdom forever’.
He’s not the first to apply that expression to the way our governments have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. This expression was used to label Western Australia, and Queensland, and New Zealand and (in fact) the whole of Australia.
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