The Aus COVID inquiry is just another way to rewrite history and manufacture public acceptance of the "live with COVID" approach.

I've uploaded a FREE pre-print of my chapter explaining this shift through my theory of COVID Hegemony.

Read it below:
researchgate.net/publication/38… In the first half of the chapter, examining the Morrison era, I argue that "the decision to “let it rip” is ideological, informed by three key pillars of thought: neoliberalism, prosperity gospel and social Darwinism."

So excited to announce that my chapter examining the politics of "letting COVID rip" in Australia has been published in the Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19!

If you liked my #COVIDHegemony pieces in the Canberra Times/Croakey, then you'll love this! 👇 First of all, hats off to editors @drhdickinson, @DrSophieYates, @JanineOFlynn and @educ84equity 🥳

It's a truly fantastic and important handbook!

My piece covering the Clean Air Forum is finally out in The Saturday Paper!

I explore how clean indoor air has been an issue long before the pandemic, which "cost Australia more than $12 billion a year due to ill health and lost productivity."

#auspol
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/environme… CMO Paul Kelly set the forum a challenge, and it was taken up by "experts in fields ranging from medicine to architecture, engineering and occupational health and safety [who] gathered with politicians at Parliament House."

#auspol #COVIDIsAirborne

Imagine being such an absolute loser (or fake account) that you comment hate on a four day old post?

Again, spouting the same nonsense: COVID isn't real, COVID is over, masks don't work, you're mentally ill, you look terrible, what a sheep, etc.

I will screenshots below:

https://twitter.com/BlairWilliams26/status/1638066678805454849

I've just spent the last 20 mins blocking them all. Feel free to do the same!

What. The actual. Hell. Did I just read 😳😳😳

If you want to see a perfect example of COVID Hegemony, this is it!

Apparently we "holdouts" need to accept the "new paradigm" of "accepting exposure" so we can "return to normal".

time.com/6251077/covid-… The media, policymakers and experts - what Gramsci referred to as the "organs of public opinion" - will "help" us get to this wonderful (eugenicist) reality by creating a "frame shift" and "behaviour changes" 🙃🙃🙃🙃

Not creepy at all. croakey.org/rethinking-cov…

My latest in The Canberra Times, in which I theorise "COVID Hegemony" to explain the transformation of our pandemic outlook:

"Living with COVID has now become hegemonic, in Gramsci's terms, not just in Australia but in many countries around the world."
canberratimes.com.au/story/8039208/… What is "hegemony"? I draw from Gramsci, who "proposed that those who hold power could ensure that their preferred worldview would be seen as natural, inevitable and beneficial to all by creating and maintaining what he termed cultural hegemony."

#CovidIsNotOver

A quick 🧵about Morrison's callous and ableist "blessed" comment.

First of all, I'm not shocked at all by his comment, mostly because of his actions in recent years. But also because of his beliefs, clearly demonstrated during the pandemic. At the start of the year, I wrote about how Morrison's pentecostal faith and neoliberal ideology was disastrous for Australia's COVID-19 response. I concluded that it "caused further harm while deflecting responsibility away from government." canberratimes.com.au/story/7600746/…

There has been a lot of talk that what's happening in Parliament wouldn't be accepted at any other workplace - yet sexual harassment and assault is sadly relatively common in workplaces around Australia. A recent survey found that 2 in 5 women have reported experiencing workplace sexual harassment in the last 5 years. abc.net.au/news/2021-03-0…