As we approach the United Nations Summit on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, the build up has been anything but calm. The mounting pressure on Prime Minister Morrison from the UK and US [1] and the challenging speech by Greta Thunberg at the pre-COP26 meeting [2] has left no doubt

The phrase ‘rational decision-maker’ is perhaps one of the most fundamental assumptions in a variety of economic models. But are decision-makers always rational and consistent in their choices? This is indeed a question which has been explored in a multitude of disciplines – from philosophy and psychology to economics and statistics.

SARS-CoV-2, more commonly known as covid-19 or ‘the pandemic’ has frozen economic growth, shutdown travel and overburdened healthcare institutions worldwide. Unquestionably, this is all secondary to the devastating and ever-growing toll of lives lost.  While Australia has navigated the damaging impact of covid-19 more proficiently relative to other nations, it