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This isn’t the first global pandemic, and it won’t be the last. Here’s what we’ve learned from four others throughout history

Economy & Industry

The course of human history has been shaped by infectious diseases, and the current crisis certainly won’t be the last time. However, we can capitalise on the knowledge gained from the Black Death, Spanish flu, HIV/AIDS and SARS pandemics, and reflect on how we’re better off this time around.

The current pandemic is a foreseeable consequence of the world we have created

By The Mandarin

Economy & Industry

All plagues bring gifts in their wake — if we are open to seeing them. COVID-19 is inviting us to reconfigure and reframe the relationships we have — not only with each other, but also with nature, as the spectre of factory farming and wet food markets are put under the microscope.

How Australia’s response to the Spanish flu of 1919 sounds warnings on dealing with coronavirus

By Frank Bongiorno

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Most Australians — Indigenous people under the protection acts were an exception — have long taken for granted their right to cross state borders. They have treated them much as they do the often unmarked boundaries dividing their suburbs. Not any more. Australia has closed its international borders to non-residents. South Australia has announced it […]

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This isn’t the first global pandemic, and it won’t be the last. Here’s what we’ve learned from four others throughout history

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The current pandemic is a foreseeable consequence of the world we have created

How Australia’s response to the Spanish flu of 1919 sounds warnings on dealing with coronavirus