While slowing the pace of the Covid-19 Pandemic is critical, reducing the growth of inequality – including in education – will be an equally important and complex challenge.

Shannon Walsh discusses how another think-tank, the New Zealand Initiative, has been writing about the current economic crisis. Walsh argues that the steps proposed by the New Zealand Initiative are necessary, but they are far from sufficient if New Zealand is to create an economically inclusive society.

Australia is the only democracy facing coronavirus that has suspended Parliament.

Without the willing contribution of the community on a large scale, there is little hope of a successful conclusion to the current public health crisis.

The coronavirus outbreak first presented early in December 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in Hubei Province. This paper argues that it appears as if the Chinese Communist Party will go to any lengths to deflect the blame for the deaths of people in China and around the world from itself.