Policing the pandemic: Australia’s technology response to COVID-19

This piece examines four technology-based government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. These, coupled with avoiding transparency and a reluctance to engage with technical experts and civil society, ... Read More

Preparing for pandemics: How the Australian government can prepare post-Covid-19

For many of us, the start of the 2020s was something we’d much rather forget. The COVID-19 pandemic had wide-ranging, devastating impacts, from the millions of lives lost around the globe, to the ... Read More

Twenty ways Australia can prepare for the next pandemic

"Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia’s genomic response was one of the best globally, largely enabled by the initial low numbers of cases in Australia," the report reads. Read More

Coronavirus pandemic: Anthony Fauci on Australia’s COVID response ...

The man who became the face of the US coronavirus response says the real global death toll is likely closer to 20 million people, and there are lessons we must not forget from the pandemic. Read More

Leaders don't need to apologise for Australia's response to COVID-19 ...

Health Minister Mark Butler says leaders who oversaw Australia's COVID-19 pandemic response don't need to apologise. An independent inquiry warned public trust had been diminished to the point ... Read More

4 ways the world messed up its pandemic response — and 3 fixes to do ...

Before COVID-19, the Global Health Security Index assembled rankings on which countries would be best and worst prepared for a hypothetical pandemic. "They proved to be very misleading," says Sachs. Read More