# Australia

The outbreak we (unfortunately) needed to have to force a paradigm shift away from COVID Zero

Do COVID Zero nations need to cross a chasm to catch up with reality? Was the NSW outbreak earlier than we would have liked, but inevitable in the long run?

A misdirected attempt at Big Tech regulation

Don’t mistake an exhibition of political power for an attempt at regulating economic power

Avoiding geopolitical risk in the Australian agriculture sector

Can the Australian agricultural sector stay out of the firing line as Sino-Australian tensions rise?

How we model COVID-19

In this post we look at how we can model COVID-19 using simple SIR models. We try to understand how different policy responses lead to different outcomes for public health. We also consider what COVID-19 might look like in the long term (in Australia) and sharpen our skills in ordinary differential equations, python, numpy and matplotlib