POLITICAL COVID
HOW AUSTRALIA’S LEADERSHIP PLAYED THE PANDEMIC
Andrew Laming
Paperback, 190 Pages, $34.95
ISBN 9781922815354
March 2023 release
In this new world of Covid prohibitions, there was little appetite
for a measured approach. The political risk of criticism for an
inadequate response was simply too great. My view was that the
precautionary approach justified going hard early, but once the science
was available, we had to start being guided by it, rather than by fear
or political self-preservation. State Governments as service providers
didn’t have a dog in the fight. It was the Commonwealth writing the
cheques that did.
***
Laming’s wit and sculpted prose along with his willingness to tell hard
truths even where he disagrees with his own actions creates a must-read.
It reminds us of a career ripped away by a jihad based on falsehoods,
and leaves readers begging the question why this man isn’t still in
Parliament.
- Vikki Campion
Laming has observed first-hand a bewildering period in Australian
political history, with his rigorous assessment of government action
(and inaction!) during the COVID era. His unassailable medical &
business credentials as a medico and Harvard grad make him one of the
all-too-few politicians in this country to have genuine credibility when
he speaks. Our children will look back in a few decades at the
inflationary effects of economic handouts and wonder what our current
leaders were thinking. As Laming reveals from the inside, COVID risks
leaving us in a black hole of political, medical and economic mediocrity
in the midst of volatile geopolitics.
- Marcel von Pfyffer (Arminius Capital)
We need people like Lammo in politics to cut through the crap and bring ideas to Parliament.
- Dr Peter Sumich
contents
Foreword
1. Beginning of sorts
2. COVID calls
published op-eds
3. COVID
4. Health
5. Economics
6. Education
7. Social policy
8. Aboriginal Australia
9. Politics
10. Environment
11. International affairs
first speech 2004
12. First speech to Parliament
Gender hysteria: the fall of Morrison
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