The COVID blame game

The term ‘living with COVID’ heralds a transition that may ultimately see blame for cases, illness, deaths and economic damage shifted away from Government and onto the individual.

Living with COVID-19?

Sydney has been plunged into a tighter, and potentially longer lock-down to curb the spread of the Delta variant, but in the long term vaccinations will allow us to accept COVID as another endemic disease.

Australia on the brink

Australia seemed to have coronavirus well contained, but a spate of recent outbreaks risk plunging the country into another round of lockdowns and restrictions.

Lessons learned from the plague year

A year on, the COVID pandemic has proved the value of science and the importance of social solidarity in the face of a common threat.

COVID-19 treatment affected by a shortage of blood plasma

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood is calling on those who have fully recovered from COVID-19 to donate their blood plasma for research.

A powerful opportunity for change

Can the challenges we face during the coronavirus pandemic help us reconsider what matters most and how we live our lives?

We need an international inquiry into COVID-19

It’s time to take the global debate about the pandemic out of the hands of Beijing and Washington and reclaim it for the 6.08 billion people who do not live in China or the US.

Preserving life and our quality of life

The trade off between public health and economic survival isn’t black and white. More targeted measures can protect those most at risk while allowing business and society to recover.

Balancing the lives we save and lose through lockdown

The unprecedented social and economic lockdown has prevented many deaths from coronavirus, but this is at the cost of other lives, as well as national and individual livelihoods, and the accounting behind the calculation needs to be made clear.

Journal of the plague year

Universities around the world are collaborating to crowd-source coronavirus accounts and create an archive of the COVID-19 epidemic for future historians to study.

Medical research must deliver the solution

There is an urgent need for more coordinated funding to fight COVID-19, both in terms of improving treatment and eventually developing a vaccine if we are to get on top of the crisis.

How will Covid-19 change the world?

Social science and humanities experts from Monash University offer their views on the implications of COVID-19 for our relationships, governments and society.