Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur : The Right to Health Sovereignty

Cafe’s Locked Out Mailing List · May 11, 2026 · 1h 30m

With John Stapleton and Michael Gray Griffith

Very few of the hundreds of thousands of Australian protesters who took to the streets during the authoritarian crackdowns of the Covid era realised that there was equally a backlash amongst some of the world’s most formidable intellectuals.

In Australia, the most courageous and forthright of those was Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. He is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most esteemed academics in the fields of international relations, global governance, nuclear…