Tag: health policy

When the General Calls: Military Tactics Against COVID-19 in Australia

…the lesson of history that I'd so reluctantly distilled was, in effect, to organise the Australian vaccine rollout as if it were a practice of pacification and counterinsurgency. That is, to follow the style of colonial militarisation from which ‘ordinary’ public health had derived over a century ago...

Health Activisim to Health ‘Consumers’

New Public Management, neo-liberalism and the capture of health activism