The extraordinary pace of vaccination has upset all of the modelling (in a good way). Many countries look on…

The extraordinary pace of vaccination has upset all of the modelling (in a good way). Many countries look on with envy at how Australia mobilises the community for a challenge. We need to understand how Australia builds and maintains a sense of community, and bottle it. /1

Have Tweeted before that I suspect community sport is the breeding ground of community here, and that it doesn't even exist in many other countries. Whether you like sport or not, that's partly where we learn how to act as a community. In our clubs. /2

Many other countries are struggling with libertarian ideas, undermining any sort of community endeavour (on anything) in favour of aspirational status-driven consumerism. There's a real push to try to introduce that in Oz too, which I think should be resisted. I remember.../3

...John Howard once saying his vision for Australia was a Rolls Royce driving past, and each Australian saying 'that's going to be me'. Aspiration. There has been some success in grafting aspirational ideas here - one reason the 'working class' vote has shifted to the LNP. /4

Ultimately libertarianism fails because it doesn't do the basics of keeping communal life running. It'd be nice to avoid going down that rabbit hole here. /end