COVID-19 has exposedthe faulty foundations upon which Australia’s relationship with China is built. Short-term economic gains have always been the lure, but they're not worth the ideological and political suffocation that must be the inevitable result

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The facts, if not the specific circumstances, are beyond dispute: China is responsible for the CORVID-19 pandemic. Don't count on that simple fact remaining beyond dispute as opportunists, sock puppets and barrow-pushers name their preferred scapegoats. Indeed, the blame-shifting has already commenced

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While William the Conqueror was subduing a remote and backward island in the North Sea, upstart rival Robert Guiscard drove Muslim invaders from Sicily and where ever else he found them. It's funny how we remember the Crusades -- Western imperialism's precursors, in the Left-approved narrative -- but never the jihadis who prompted them

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If we are to avoid stumbling from crisis to catastrophe amid the wreckage the Wuhan virus will bequeath, the time to chart the path not merely to recovery but a revitalised economy is now. Reform isn't an option, it is an absolute necessity

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Sir Roger Scruton once observed how 'intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.' The Wuhan virus has given our expert class an opportunity to fulfil those yearnings and they have seized it, and the entire nation, by the throat

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'Grotesque, absurd and dangerous' is how epidemiologist Sucharit Bhakdi describes Germany's response to the Wuhan virus, a response mild by comparison with Australia's blizzard of edicts banning everything from recreational fishing to ammunition sales. Although little reported, Dr Bhakdi is far from alone

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Of course we should not have ignored Wuhan's toxic gift to the world, but the current approach implies by its very nature that it is not intended to eradicate the disease, just to contain it until a vaccine can be developed. With winter looming we could be in lockdown for twelve months. That would be catastrophic

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Every day will make it harder for businesses and people to bounce back. This means the national exercise in isolation and shuttered businesses can extend only a few more weeks at most. Donald Trump knows and understands as much. Does our National Cabinet?

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If we need a lockdown-- as I said, my personal view is that we do -- medical specialists have to give the government consistent, coherent evidence-based reasons why. So far, that explanation has been lacking

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Beijing's machinations are so opaque that only an apologist or fool would trust President-for-Life Xi’s word on anything. If, when this plague is over, we again hear the voices of China's locally engaged quislings urging closer bonds with a fascist regime, the reaction should be one of loud, instant and utter contempt

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