Border Blockades Spark Australia's Biggest Crisis in 120 Years.

But the country's more sparsely populated north and west are doubling down on "Covid Zero", zealously defending a strategy that has allowed local residents to live maskless and with ease, though cut off from the rest of the country and the world. (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The coronavirus pandemic is creating perhaps the biggest crisis for Australia's federal system since 1901, when six disparate British colonies in the so-called Great Southern Land united to win collective independence. In recent years, state leaders have been aggrieved by what they've perceived as the federal government siphoning off the largesse from its iron ore, natural gas, and gold exports to help bolster poorer states. [Extracted from the article]

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