Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

Melissa Cunningham

Life As We Knew It: The extraordinary story of Australia’s pandemic by Aisha Dow and Melissa Cunningham

by •
January-February 2024, no. 461
Ben Brooker reviews ‘Life As We Knew It: The extraordinary story of Australia’s pandemic’ by Aisha Dow and Melissa Cunningham

In October 2014, an article by health reporter Aisha Dow appeared in Melbourne’s Age newspaper titled ‘Deadly flu pandemic could shut down Melbourne’. It began with a dystopian vision of Australia’s second most populous city plunged into a Spanish flu-like crisis:

... (read more)