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Nick is joined by Lottie to discuss Melbourne’s lockdown – what it was like, implications for work and life generally going forward, and our evaluation of how the Andrews government has handled the pandemic.
Links:
- ‘‘Devastated’: Anger after ‘culturally significant’ tree cut down at highway site’ by Miki Perkins (article on theage.com.au).
- ‘Coronavirus Victoria: Daniel Andrews says Cox Plate backflip prompted by public backlash, not health concerns’ by Melissa Davey (article on theguardian.com).
- ‘The Psychology Behind Conspiracy Theories with Rob Brotherton’ (Factually podcast).
- ‘Why Do Right-Wing Adherents Engage in More Animal Exploitation and Meat Consumption?’ (brief overview of the academic literature on this topic on faunalytics.org).
- Our previous episodes referred to: #254 on our critiques of privatisation, #250 on the hard lockdown of public housing towers and #173 on the Grenfell Fire.
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Clips:
The Lonely Island ‘YOLO’, Lowkey ‘Ghosts of Grenfell 2’.
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