Protect nature to prevent pandemics

COVID-19 has shown the world that human health and environmental health are intricately linked.

Australia opens for business

Modelling suggests the governments of New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT should have confidence that opening up will be successful.

A model failure

As 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.

Who was protesting in Melbourne?

While union leaders and government officials have blamed the Melbourne protests on the ‘far right’, the truth is far more complicated.

Wake up sheeple

Information 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.

This year’s model solves last year’s problem

The 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“National Plan” to relax restrictions at 70 per cent and 80 per cent vaccination thresholds is often based on outdated assumptions regarding the impact of COVID.

Should business encourage vaccinations?

As 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?

Sydney risks a spike if it opens too quickly

Balancing 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.

Holding onto hope

The 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.

No ‘Freedom Day’ for Australia just yet

Patchy 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.

Teens need the COVID-19 jab for herd immunity

James 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.

Introducing OzSAGE – practical advice for reopening Australia

OzSAGE’s first recommendations deal with ventilation and the measures that will have to accompany widespread vaccination.