Dr Nick Coatsworth

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831 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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And I've listened to a lot of your guests on this podcast and

And I do worry that we shifted quite markedly to a heavy dependence on government as a result of some of the things that we did.

And that is something that I couldn't really have predicted in the thick of it there or even reflected on.

Dan Andrews, perhaps?

I think that at the start, there was a genuine desire from most leaders to try and do the right thing.

Yes.

But when I'm talking about the start, I'm really only talking about the first three months.

February, March, April.

Because after that, we had a fairly clear idea of who this was going to affect and who wasn't at risk.

But we got into this.

And the thing that troubled me most, Mark, was that

It showed us that instead of being a hopeful larrikin nation, which is what I want, I want to be part of that nation.

Yeah.

We were part of a locked up and very scared nation.

So how did we become those people though?

I don't know.

I think it was a combination.

Well, I can say I don't know.

I actually just did a PhD on why we closed the international borders.

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