From overseas, Australia’s pandemic strategy looks desperate
After the freedoms of the rest of the world, being marched from the airport baggage carousel to a quarantine hotel for an enforced two-week stay, for which I have to pay, is simply not something I will do.
In January this year, my mother died in Canberra. She had lived in the same house for almost 60 years but spent the last few years in a nursing home suffering from dementia.
I have lived in London for 30 years and throughout that time, returned home two or three times a year to visit her.
