The dynamic nature of an international pandemic such as COVID-19 carries inherent security risks for governments, businesses and individuals. Due to such concerns regarding potential future fraudulent behaviour relating to the COVID-19 vaccination status of individuals, which cannot be properly predicted at this point, the committee has resolved to present its current findings in this...

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian claimed Sydney’s COVID-19 restrictions were the “harshest lockdown conditions that any state in Australia has seen". But while some rules were harsher than those tried elsewhere, many were less strict. Verdict: Ms Berejiklian’s claim is wrong.

Tenants Victoria, the state's peak body for renters, surveyed renters about the financial impact of public-health lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey, conducted immediately after Victoria's fifth lockdown in August 2021, found that 69% said they were financially impacted by lockdowns, while more than half said they were struggling to pay rent.

This paper propose a multimodal strategy for long-term COVID control — one that sets up multiple barriers of protection so that we are able to not only contain SARS-CoV-2 and eliminate COVID-19 as a major life-threatening disease, but also return to a new social and economic life.

This paper argues that the biggest risk to Australia's public health and economic outlook is not the failure to reach thresholds for full vaccination, but that governments will be excessively cautious in easing restrictions once the thresholds are reached.