Bill Mitchell — The Pandemic, Government Failures and Accumulated Social Wreckage

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Today, we have a guest blogger in the guise of Professor Scott Baum from Griffith University who has been one of my regular research colleagues over a long period of time. Today he is writing about impact on local communities of the current Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney. Over to Scott …Bill Mitchell – billy blogThe Pandemic, Government Failures and Accumulated Social WreckageScott Baum, Professor of Urban and Regional Analysis, School of Environment and the Cities Research Institute, Griffith University

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