![]() ![]() Covid-19, though, has returned the nation to an older national psyche. For a couple of decades, the rise of affordable international aviation connected Australia to the rest of the world. They have deeper cultural and historical roots. Such attitudes or mindsets have not just emerged from the pandemic. Public acceptance of border closures and lockdowns have reflected Australia’s deep aversion to biosecurity risk, and Australians’ tendency to see their country as a sanctuary from the rest of a troublesome world. Quite the contrary, many - if not reveling in them - believe they were absolutely necessary. And yet there was almost no resistance here in Australia. These restrictions would have been unthinkable anywhere in the democratic countries of the northern hemisphere. People leaving their homes even for exercise or essential shopping.
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