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The Petrovsky Affair

There’s no immunity to bureaucratic madness

6 November 2021

9:00 AM

6 November 2021

9:00 AM

Professor Nikolai Petrovsky has just developed Australia’s first successful vaccine in 40 years. In any approximation of a normal world, he would be feted as the living incarnation of the government’s much trumpeted aspiration to be an ‘innovation nation’. Instead, he has been stood down by his university and threatened with arrest if he sets foot in his office.

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