Perth Indymedia

Knee jerk border closures without an examination of the evidence, the spreading of fear & panic, and abject indifference, at best, to the suffering of poorly vaccinated populations in the global South. Familiar aspects of the Australian government’s COVID-19 political playbook that we’ve grown used to almost two years into the pandemic, this time in response to the emergence of the Omicron variant. Alex Whisson spoke to social justice activist, academic and commentator Paddy Gibson to discuss the politics of Omicron, the left’s response, and the continuing rise of the far right on the back of the anti-vaccination movement.