This report calls on the federal government to appoint an expert panel to lead a comprehensive pan-Canadian examination into how public institutions performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Covid Collective research platform was launched in October 2020, and initially brought together the expertise of eight core partner organisations, coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies. The Collective rapidly evolved into a continuously developing platform for new research to build upon, and for wider, evidence-based engagement with key policy- and decision- makers.

This article reports on a study that assessed people's gambling during and after the Australian COVID-19 lockdown. It found that gambling availability appears a stronger influence on gambling problems than psychosocial risk factors. Reducing the supply of high-risk gambling products is likely to reduce gambling harm.

Understanding spatial patterns of population change is vital in planning for services and infrastructure, and in managing the pressures created as local populations grow and decline. This research shows the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population was very focused on capital cities, which collectively experienced population loss in 2020-21.

Despite well-established evidence of the increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) during the first two years of the pandemic, to date there has been no global research examining how victim-survivors’ experiences of long COVID uniquely impact their safety and support needs. This report seeks to put the interpersonal safety and support needs of individuals...