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As we write this final chapter, the COVID-19 pandemic that has spread across the globe for the past two years is still having its impacts felt. Australia has come through the Omicron variant of the disease better than other countries, but not entirely unscathed. Our ‘poster-child’ status as being a country that successfully dealt with the initial outbreak of the disease was beginning to look a little tarnished.
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Baum, S., Baker, E., Davies, A., Stone, J., Taylor, E. (2022). The Future of COVID Cities. In: Pandemic Cities. Cities Research Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5884-7_8
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