DEFINING MOMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
1918 – 2018 CENTENARY OF ARMISTICE
1919: Influenza pandemic reaches Australia
“AUSTRALIA MUST now face the fact that the scourge which has taken so heavy a toll from the rest of the world has invaded her own frontiers,” reported The Sydney Morning Herald on 28 January 1919.
Flu pandemics (epidemics of worldwide proportion) have reached our shores – in the 1890s, in 1957,
