Pandemics
Fact sheet
Financial wellbeing and COVID-19: CSI response
This fact sheet discusses how the key fiscal policy responses of the Australian federal and state governments have tried to address the impact of the pandemic on financial wellbeing.
Report
Young carer research project: summary of findings
Young carers are resilient in navigating life’s challenges and gain a range of valuable skills and qualities through caring for others, according to this research report by Carers NSW.
Report
Not immune: exploring liability of authoritarian regimes for the COVID-19 pandemic and its cover-up
This publication examines the full extent to which authoritarian regimes like China and Iran are legally liable for the COVID-19 disaster, and what can be done to hold them accountable.
Briefing paper
The hunger virus: how COVID-19 is fuelling hunger in a hungry world
This briefing reveals how 121 million more people could be pushed to the brink of starvation this year as a result of the social and economic fallout from the pandemic including through mass unemployment, disruption to food production and supplies, and declining aid.
Article
How pandemic modelling failed policy-makers, and how to do better
The existing models for epidemics, which were used to trigger lockdowns around the globe in response to COVID-19, seem to have missed the mark in terms of predicting the spread of the virus and informing good public policy. But why did this happen, and how can policy-makers avoid making the same mistakes? Canadian health policy...