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Indonesia was in denial over coronavirus. Now it may be facing a looming disaster

  • Written by: Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, University of Melbourne
Indonesia was in denial over coronavirus. Now it may be facing a looming disasterHOTLI SIMANJUNTAK/EPA

Almost no one thinks Indonesia is handling the COVID-19 pandemic well.

Until early March, the government claimed it had no cases of infection, something the eccentric health minister, Terawan Agus Putranto, attributed to prayer. The home affairs minister urged the public to eat more bean sprouts and broccoli, while President...

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Lack of help for local councils in coronavirus package undercuts industry support

  • Written by: Martin Loosemore, Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney
Lack of help for local councils in coronavirus package undercuts industry supportThe Warrick Lane redevelopment is a major construction project overseen by local government.Blacktown City Council/Facebook

Local governments are not eligible for the JobKeeper Payment, while major industries like construction are. Although the JobKeeper scheme has been broadly welcomed, it is a mystery to business why Australia’s 537 local...

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it isn't all about technology

  • Written by: Julian Waters-Lynch, Lecturer Entrepreneurship and Innovation, RMIT University
it isn't all about technologyArchives of Ontario, CC BY

If you’re working from home for the first time, you might be asking yourself why you didn’t get to do this years ago.

The benefits of remote work have been discussed for nearly half a century. Many thinkers predicted a near future where work moves to the worker, rather than the worker to the work.

In 1969, Alan...

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  6. as culture moves online, regional organisations need help bridging the digital divide
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  10. How George Pell won in the High Court on a legal technicality
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  13. More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself
  14. 5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs
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  20. Morrison sees massive ratings surge in Newspoll over coronavirus crisis; Trump also improves
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  22. Coronavirus support packages will reshape the future economy, and that presents an opportunity
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  31. 'Zoombombers' want to troll your online meetings. Here's how to stop them
  32. Can I visit my boyfriend or my parents? Go fishing or bushwalking? Coronavirus rules in the Northern Territory and Tasmania
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  34. What does the coronavirus pandemic sound like? The voices of people struggling, secluding and surviving around the world
  35. Australia's telcos, banks and supermarkets granted exemption to cartel laws
  36. Young people are anxious about coronavirus. Political leaders need to talk with them, not at them
  37. Sleep won't cure the coronavirus but it can help our bodies fight it
  38. Can I visit my boyfriend? My parents? Go fishing or bushwalking? Coronavirus rules in the ACT and South Australia explained
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