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We’re working with professional trainers in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales to train dogs to sniff out COVID-19. They could be highly valuable in managing the spread of infection.
Work in the sexual services industry has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and workers have been left without access to government support.
Public washrooms are an essential service and the people who maintain them are essential workers. But what happens when a pandemic closes public bathrooms and a civil rights protest breaks out?
Australia’s island identity and attitude to border security was forged from handling pandemics since the time of federation. Here’s what we’ve learned along the way.
A critical problem with the bill is it allows the federal government to collect much more personal data from COVIDSafe users than is necessary for contact tracing.
Politicians and public health officials appeal to our sense of fairness in requesting the public’s co-operation in controlling the pandemic. But COVID-19 doesn’t affect everyone equally.
New Zealanders are preparing to stay at home for four weeks to stop the spread of COVID-19. Under existing laws, people who flout lockdown rules could face fines or six months in jail.
Recently, police forces have come under criticism for their engagement of facial recognition technologies. But pandemic response plans may increasingly incorporate surveillance.
In an age of social media and the propensity for misinformation to spread like wildfire, organizations and governments should consider social media strategies in pandemic response planning.
From China and South Korea to Italy and the US, different countries are taking very different approaches to COVID-19 – with varying degrees of success.
Top contributors
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Director and CEO, Burnet Institute
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Paediatrics, Griffith University
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Dean, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, RMIT University
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Professor of Law and Information Systems, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Computing & Information Systems; Director, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, The University of Melbourne
