COVID-19

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Premier Daniel Andrews September 29, 2020

Morrison government’s message to Daniel Andrews: ‘open faster’

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Victoria is on the right track towards opening up as it registered 13 COVID cases today, 10 cases yesterday...
COVID-19
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Premier Daniel Andrews 28 September | Screenshot from ABC News Youtube Channel

Just 5 cases today, curfew lifted and COVID-19 roadmap is ‘ahead...

By Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews today reported five new cases were recorded overnight, the state's lowest daily case increase since June...
COVID-19
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Group singing | Photo Shutterstock

This video shows just how easily COVID-19 could spread when people...

By C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW; Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, UNSW; Charitha de Silva, UNSW; Con Doolan, UNSW; Prateek Bahl, UNSW, and Shovon Bhattacharjee, UNSW Production of...
Arts + Culture
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Unemployment queue | Stefan Postles:AAP

Unemployment support will be slashed by $300 this week. This won’t...

By Bruce Bradbury, UNSW and Peter Whiteford, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University This week, support for unemployed Australians will be dramatically reduced. In...
Business + Economy
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Melbourne Flinders Station | Photo James Ross | AAP

Who suffers most from Melbourne’s extended lockdown? Hint: they are not...

By Peter Robertson, University of Western Australia Businesses are protesting vociferously about Victoria’s extended lockdown. It’s “gut-wrenching,” “devastating,” a “trainwreck,” a “death knell”. Yet businesses and...
Business + Economy
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Lisa Maree Williams/AAP/Getty Images AsiaPac

Can the government, or my employer, force me to get a...

By Maria O'Sullivan, Monash University Prime Minister Scott Morrison took many people by surprise last month when he said a COVID-19 vaccine would be “as...
COVID-19
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