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Nicholas Thompson

Nicholas Thompson

Public health epidemiologist and Academic Convenor at Australia Pacific Security College, ANU; co-hosts Pacific Wayfinder podcast on regional security and health

Jul 23, 2026

10:20
What do you propose the answer or the rehearsal might be for this problem set?
10:27
That's a super question.
10:28
That's also some, some really s- super commentary there from, from Dr. Esperanza.
10:33
Maybe a couple of additions there that, that might help, kinda help frame this up a bit historically as well.
10:39
I think what, if we, if we go back to COVID and if we also look at our present diptheria outbreak in, particularly in, in rural remote communities, both really tragically hit these communities incredibly hard.
10:53
If we look at why is it those communities, why is it the, the, the, the small communities at the Bark Tennant Creek and Canteen Creek and these communities at 3% of first dose COVID vaccine when the rest of the country was 83%.
11:07
And so, and if you look into the history of that, you, you're talking about a population that has been, you know, displaced already, that has access to Northern Territory health government clinics that are, that are placed in locale, um, of these communities.

21 MINS LATER

32:48
What does that look like for a future Australia?

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