For Aboriginal Australians, COVID-19 has great potential to wreak havoc in communities, the government is needing to take steps to ensure their safety.

As the novel coronavirus sweeps around the world, public health systems and political leaders in every country are being put to the test. This paper provides a succinct look at how Australia and the United States are tackling the coronavirus pandemic, comparing and contrasting the approaches taken on some key issues.

News that the Morrison government paid A$190,000 last year for advice on how to empathise with the Australian people was met with ridicule.

What are the lessons of overseas Covid-19 responses for Australian policymakers?

Australia could see higher proportional death rates from the novel coronavirus outbreak than in China, due to our relatively older population and the more severe symptoms of the virus in older people, according to this perspective by Professor Raina MacIntyre, Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute.