This report tells the stories of Australians who were impacted by Australia's COVID-19 pandemic response measures and asks how human rights can be better safeguarded during future emergencies. The report recommends that all levels of government in Australia adopt an Emergency Response Framework underpinned by key principles designed to protect human rights.

This report presents brief statistical analyses of the first 22 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households. An important theme of the report is how Australians are faring in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis and the sharp rise in the cost...

Primary Health Networks (PHNs) coordinated and commissioned place-based primary health care services to address their region’s local identified health needs. This report looks at the performance and outcomes of the PHN program. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to disrupt the primary health care system from the previous year, including delivery of the PHN program and its...

This paper examines how two major policies responding to the COVID-19 pandemic affected the wellbeing of eligible recipients, one that increased liquidity by releasing personal savings and one that increased wealth through a government transfer. The findings suggest the former raised life satisfaction while the latter did not.

This meta-analysis examines the prolonged impacts of COVID-19 infection across 14 studies from 2023 and 2024. It identifies a core set of common and persistent symptoms: fatigue, poor concentration/memory, shortness of breath, and loss of taste or smell. By contributing to a more precise definition of long COVID, the report supports more accurate diagnosis and...