A long term crisis needs long term solutions

The government should immediately create a Covid-19 funding body with a mandate to identify critical capacity and capability shortfalls and to encourage, lead and drive solutions to tackle the unfolding health crisis.

COVID-19, like Spanish flu, will hit poor nations the hardest

Horror videos posted on social media last week underline the extreme vulnerability of emerging nations to the novel coronavirus.

Beware the second wave of infection

Australia appears to be getting on top of the coronavirus outbreak, but relaxing the social distancing regulations too early could see a second wave of community infections unravel all the good work that’s been done.

Q&A – How the world is coping with COVID-19

UNSW Sydney’s Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, an adviser to the World Health Organisation, says the world will never be the same again following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Covid-19: Engaging our leadership, our humanity, our values

The Covid-19 crisis is proving bigger than any of us could have imagined but we should not underestimate our roles, our actions and the power in them to come through this crisis together.

COVID-19 and the environmental crisis

The environment has all but disappeared from political discourse as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, but COVID-19 seems to be our “payback” for the excesses of globalisation and man’s exploitation of nature.

Helping the Pacific survive COVID-19

The small, developing nations of the Pacific are facing incredible health and economic challenges from the Covid-19 threat, and while Australia battles its own outbreak, it can also take effective measures to help its neighbours.

We’re steering in the right direction, but we’ll need a bigger boat

If we continue to think of fiscal responses to this crisis as loans that need to be paid back on a short clock, we will damage the ability of the economy to come out this crisis healthy enough to grow away the debt.

Coronanomics

The global economy will never be the same again after the COVID-19 outbreak and neither will Australia in terms of how we work and how we engage with nature.

Short, sharp shock

The current “slow trickle” of new measures to fight COVID-19 may allow the epidemic to continue to spread, particularly if schools remain open, and mean a far longer road to recovery.

5 tips to help your kids learn at home

As schools in several Australian states close their doors, many parents are concerned about the disruption to their child’s education. So, what’s the best way to keep kids learning at home?

Stay in touch with touchscreens

Social distancing is rapidly becoming a way of life as Australia fights the outbreak of COVID-19, but the physical isolation of older people can be eased by virtual contacts with family, and activities ranging from karaoke to museum tours.