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Only it isn’t. We will pay a high price if we revert to thinking we can succeed as a nation protected by fortress walls. We are, after all, a trading nation. Our modern economic success is inseparable from being part of an open, globalised world. Our society wouldn’t be what it is today without immigration.
This modern, open version of Australia is now under challenge. We are in danger of lapsing into some old, insular ways. One entirely comfortable with turning our backs on the world.
To be sure, closing our borders this past year has had the desired effect. Alongside a world-class public health response, it has helped to prevent Covid from spreading through our society. While there has been the odd lockdown, and we’ve had to get used to face masks, life here has for the most part continued normally.
Urgent global action is needed to end the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future threats, according to a new report by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
The panel, co-chaired by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, criticises the World Health Organization (WHO) for its tardy actions during the first months of 2020.
The WHO was slow to warn of person-to-person transmission after it first received this information in Wuhan, China, in early January.
And it was slow to declare a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), which it did on January 30.