With Victoria’s parliament expected to vote on the bill this week, four legal experts recommend ways to make it better.
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The Yoo-rrook Justice Commission is a royal commission seeking truth-telling on the historical and contemporary injustices experienced by First Nations peoples in Victoria.
A cross-party, parliamentary oversight committee would ensure the government’s wide powers are exercised in an accountable way.
Today should not be seen as ‘freedom day’. But it is the first step towards a time when the pandemic won’t dominate our daily lives.
Events have overtaken state plans for limited numbers of international students to return. With NSW dropping quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals, flight capacity is the final obstacle.
There are reasons for concern, but there are also some protections in place.
Victoria has mandated COVID vaccinations for an estimated 1.25 million workers. Employment law expert Giuseppe Carabetta explains the legalities.
A largely hidden fault beneath the Victorian Alps has triggered a magnitude 5.8 quake that was felt as far afield as Sydney, Adelaide and Launceston. Here’s what we know so far.
Even if the construction union wanted to oppose the government’s vaccine mandate, there’s not a lot it could do.
Income and employment support are more important in addressing the mental health impact of the pandemic than mental health services.
The rules dividing states and territories are likely to remain in the short term. But as time goes on and vaccination rates increase, many may stop trying to reach COVID-zero too.
The sane elements of the media, of which The Age is one, serve the community better when their opinions are measured and do not feed into the political polarisation developing around the pandemic.
The next months are going to remain difficult. But I’m still hopeful about the future. There will come a point when enough people are vaccinated that case numbers begin to decrease.
‘Contracting out’ government functions for delivery by the private sector has become the standard way of doing things across all levels of government in Australia.
Mould, dodging mine shafts, sleeping in beds of dried leaves: Mary Anne Allen’s diary offers a fascinating glimpse of family life on the goldfields in 1852.
Barnaby Joyce’s pro-mining stance is at odds with the more progressive quarters of the party, and puts the Nationals in a difficult position on global carbon tariffs.
Under the Commonwealth Criminal Code, it’s an offence to use a ‘carriage service’ — which includes phone, videoconferencing or email —for the purposes of conveying ‘suicide related material’.
There’s always an element of ‘hindsight being 20/20’ whenever we’re evaluating a lockdown.
Three suburbs in Victoria have been warned against drinking tap water — even if they boil it first.
We have the chance to build a world class, dedicated quarantine facility. Here’s how we could do it.
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Professor of Nursing and Health Services Research, Avondale College of Higher Education
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
