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Protect nature to prevent pandemics
Open Forum | November 18, 2021COVID-19 has shown the world that human health and environmental health are intricately linked.
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Australia opens for business
Tony Blakely | October 6, 2021Modelling suggests the governments of New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT should have confidence that opening up will be successful.
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A model failure
William Bowtell | October 5, 2021As much as some politicians may wish to deny it, they alone are responsible and accountable to the Australian people for the decisions that have created Australia’s COVID response and will shape its future.
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Who was protesting in Melbourne?
Elise Thomas | September 26, 2021While union leaders and government officials have blamed the Melbourne protests on the ‘far right’, the truth is far more complicated.
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Wake up sheeple
Lachlan Gilbert | September 24, 2021Information may be changing as quickly as the COVID-19 virus mutates, but being open and transparent about it fosters trust and social cohesion despite a flood of misinformation online.
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This year’s model solves last year’s problem
John Quiggin | September 23, 2021The debate over Australia’s “National Plan” to relax restrictions at 70 per cent and 80 per cent vaccination thresholds is often based on outdated assumptions regarding the impact of COVID.
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Should business encourage vaccinations?
Kate Bettes | September 20, 2021As Australia edges closer to the vaccination targets required to open the economy and international borders, big businesses have been stepping up but is it their role to do so?
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Sydney risks a spike if it opens too quickly
Raina MacIntyre | September 15, 2021Balancing the threat to health posed by COVID and the need to re-open a largely vaccinated society is a difficult choice, but new modelling suggests a heavy price will be paid if New South Wales opens too quickly.
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Holding onto hope
Alan Petersen | September 9, 2021The COVID-19 pandemic provides a “hopeful moment” – to use a phrase coined by Hirokazu Myazaki – to create opportunities for envisioning alternative futures, ones that are more inclusive and caring, less environmentally destructive, and oriented to fulfilling basic human needs.
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No ‘Freedom Day’ for Australia just yet
Open Forum | September 8, 2021Patchy uptake of COVID-19 vaccines across cities and regions means Australia’s public health measures are likely to continue well into next year, with a leading epidemiologist predicting the country will achieve tolerable disease control by early 2022.
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Teens need the COVID-19 jab for herd immunity
Open Forum | September 7, 2021James Cook University scientists have developed a new model to track the COVID-19 pandemic – and it’s telling them Australia should now prioritise delivering the Pfizer vaccine to 12-40 year-olds.
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Introducing OzSAGE – practical advice for reopening Australia
Richard Holden | September 6, 2021OzSAGE’s first recommendations deal with ventilation and the measures that will have to accompany widespread vaccination.