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Urban Aboriginal people face unique challenges in the fight against coronavirus

  • Written by: Fiona Stanley, Perinatal and pediatric epidemiologist; distinguished professorial fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
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There seems to be a myth in Australia that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people mostly live in remote communities. But the vast majority (79%) live in urban areas.

The federal government has rightly decided the best policy to protect Indigenous people from COVID-19 is to socially isolate remote communities.

Now the government...

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how to keep kids safe while they're learning online

  • Written by: Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University
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Before COVID-19, children would spend a lot of the day at school. There they would be taught about internet safety and be protected when going online by systems that filter or restrict access to online content.

Schools provide protective environments to restrict access to content such as pornography and gambling. They also protect...

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Refugees need protection from coronavirus too, and must be released

  • Written by: Claire Loughnan, Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
Refugees need protection from coronavirus too, and must be releasedAAP/Dan Peled

Pressure is growing to release people from immigration detention, with lawyers from Australia’s Human Rights Law Centre mounting a court case on behalf of a refugee seeking protection from COVID-19. They argue the federal government has a duty of care to refugees, which cannot be met in immigration detention due to the crowded...

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Michelle Grattan on the government's contact tracing app, the World Health Organization and 'the road back'

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Michelle Grattan talks with Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher (remotely) about the week in politics, including how China and the World Health Organization will come out of the coronavirus crisis, the success of the Australian government’s economic packages so far, and the foreshadowed contact tracing app.

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Michelle Grattan does not work for,...

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