How Australia's response to the Spanish flu of 1919 sounds warnings on dealing with coronavirus
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Melbourne's Great Hall during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19.Museums Victoria
Most Australians - Indigenous people under the protection acts were an exception - have long taken for granted their right to cross state borders. They have treated them much as they do the often unmarked boundaries dividing their suburbs. Not any more.
Australia has...