Gigi Foster

16 September 2022
More Harm Than Good
A cost–benefit analysis clearly shows far more harm than good came from Australia’s oppressive COVID lockdowns, economics professor Gigi Foster has found. It is possible that lockdown[s] will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in modern history. – Douglas Allen, Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University The world has been shaken by the response of

16 March 2022
Betraying Ourselves
In the first few months of 2020, fear regarding the new Covid-19 virus was palpable, and understandable. Educated citizens of many democratic nations around the world faced draconian government-issued restrictions on human movement, personal behaviour, and business operations. But, as the months went by and evidence accumulated that contraindicated population-wide restrictions, the continued willingness of individuals to accept them –