“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…” so wrote Charles Dickens; the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens might have said the same about the Australian media today, as forces large than itself batter it. Key among those forces is three viruses: Google, Facebook and SARS-CoV-2. None will go away soon and there are no vaccines available. If there is any upside to the present pandemic, at least for Australia, it […]