The aim of this paper is to put the COVID-19 pandemic in perspective by observing trends in gender inequality in unpaid domestic or care work over the short and long-term in Australia.

Australian states and territories independently implemented school closures as part of Australia’s successful COVID-19 elimination strategy. In this paper, the authors estimate the causal effect of pandemic school closures on standardised test scores in Australia, using variation in the length of school closures.

This research explores the key impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of VET and examines how students and training providers have responded in a rapidly changing and uncertain environment.

A national long COVID and COVID-19 database is among the key recommendations in this report. Overall, the Committee makes nine recommendations aimed at strengthening the Australian government’s management of long COVID.

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) continues both worldwide and in New Zealand. The authors of this report argue that the politicisation of the execution of the response to the pandemic led to a lack of adaptability and agility, and so the government response was more costly than necessary.