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Alliance between Africa’s two major national airlines may lower costs but competition remains.
The ruling could justify the future visa cancellation of any individual who is seen as a ‘role model’ and who may be perceived as causing social unrest.
The tennis star’s deportation will be politically popular in Australia, but it is likely to further infuriate Serbia.
A legal scholar explains what the ruling means for other vaccine mandates and the government’s ability to protect public health.
Are economic drivers the reason for the reduced isolation period in the UK?
With his Australian visa now cancelled for a second time, the tennis star will likely not be able to chase history at his most successful Grand Slam tournament.
The government has been anxious to ensure a second visa cancellation could withstand a fresh challenge from Djokovic’s lawyers.
This is a proportional response to managing risk at this stage of the pandemic, with so many of us vaccinated and receiving boosters. However, we need to monitor these changes.
Can the government mandate vaccines? Canadians have rights to make decisions about vaccination, but these rights are not absolute, and do not mean those decisions will have no consequences.
The failure to observe public health protocols during the pandemic requires attention and action. Revitalizing global citizenship education in schools should be part of addressing the problem.
We’d all like some answers. But uncertainty over how we count COVID cases is complicating the picture. Here’s what to expect in the days and weeks ahead.
The NSW government’s announcement of a $1,000 fine for failing to report a positive voluntary rapid antigen test will likely achieve the opposite of its intention.
The case taken by two high-profile academics against their university goes to the heart of what it means to be a ‘critic and conscience of society’.
Boris Johnson’s arguments fall down in several key ways.
Ottawa’s travel ban against African countries made clear its underlying policy: What matters is not your test result, but where you’ve been. It’s yet another example of anti-Africa discrimation.
The new variant threatens to infect billions worldwide in early 2022.
COVID-19 greatly disrupted local market dynamics at landing sites, within the communities, and connections to more distant markets.
Five articles on the meanings of hope and how to think about resilience, healing and even joy in the midst of this winter’s bleakness.
The lack of preparation has been even more stunning than the miscalculation. As prime minister, Scott Morrison has to shoulder prime responsibility.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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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
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
