COVID-19

Substantial investment needed to avert mental health crisis

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The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting the need to urgently increase investment in services for mental health or risk a massive ...

Get your kids NAPLAN ready with these simple tests

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Students across Australia should have been sitting their NAPLAN tests this week. Powered by WPeMatico

First scenes of nightlife reopening in Australia

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Award-winning Japanese restaurant Sokyo at The Star Sydney has become the first high-end restaurant in Australia to open its doors ...

Cult $25 tanning product that’s selling out

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If bronzed was the tone of summer, pasty and pale has definitely been the running theme of self-isolation. Powered by ...

Watch: Acting Immigration Minister on new detention centre powers

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The Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge is speaking about new legislation to strengthen search and seizure powers in immigration detention. ...

Is isolation a feeling?

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Emotions and feelings can be thought of as judgments: considered responses to what is happening. Powered by WPeMatico

Why some people turn to conspiracy theories to explain the coronavirus

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Despite scientists and health authorities already correcting misinformation, conspiracy theories linked to the coronavirus are continuing to spread online. Powered ...

Recovered coronavirus patients in Queensland could be key to saving new patients

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Scientists are hoping blood samples from recovered COVID-19 patients could unlock a way to fight the deadly virus by identifying ...

Italy sanitises churches ahead of reopenings

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Italian churches have been preparing for the long-awaited reopening of masses to the public. Liturgies and services were cancelled across ...

Joining forces to end TB and COVID-19

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Message from Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director, WHO Global TB Programme WHO / Elena Longarini Dear colleagues, partners and friends, The ...

Global partners issue Call to Action to overcome barriers to scale up TB preventive treatment

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Global partners in the fight to end tuberculosis (TB) including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNITAID, US Agency for ...

Devastating toll of local business closures revealed

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More than 130 Victorian businesses have plunged into liquidation or voluntary administration since the coronavirus crisis began, but experts warn ...

Call to cap commuters for safe return to travel

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Passenger numbers on trains, trams and buses should be capped and employers urged to stagger work hours to limit coronavirus ...

Nine new Victorian cases as Macca’s cluster grows

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This coronavirus article is unlocked and free to read in the interest of community health and safety. Get full digital ...

Overseas travel ‘not back to normal’ until 2023

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Australians will have to wait years for overseas travel to return to normal, with an industry authority revealing that won’t ...

Elite school announces plans to reopen early

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Carey Baptist Grammar will be one of the first schools to reopen on May 25, a day ahead of the ...

US First Nations tribes stand off with South Dakota Governor over checkpoints

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Two First Nations tribes in South Dakota are defying orders from Governor Kristi Noem to take down road checkpoints the ...

Thousands gather in Montenegro for religious procession

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A few thousand people attended a religious gathering in Montenegro on Tuesday which authorities deemed was a violation of rules ...

Traffic, public transport commuters increase as lockdown eases in London

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The amount of traffic and commuters in London began looking more like pre-coronavirus levels amid confusion over the British government’s ...

NSW records community-transmitted coronavirus cases as death toll rises to 98

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An 81-year-old woman who was a passenger on the ill-fated Ruby Princess cruise ship has died of coronavirus in NSW, ...

Government’s 1.5 million COVID-19 antibody tests ‘not accurate enough’

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A report has found 1.5 million coronavirus antibody tests purchased by the federal government are not accurate enough to be ...

The cost of inaction: COVID-19-related service disruptions could cause hundreds of thousands of extra deaths from HIV

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A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that if efforts are not made to ...

ECOSOC Informal Briefing on ‘Joining Forces: Effective Policy Solutions for Covid-19 Response’

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     WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros, joined senior UN officials, virtually, to brief UN Member States on the COVID-19 response. He ...

WHO statement: Tobacco use and COVID-19

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Tobacco kills more than 8 million people globally every year. More than 7 million of these deaths are from direct ...

Macca’s cluster grows as another worker tests positive

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A third worker at a McDonald’s restaurant has contracted coronavirus. Powered by WPeMatico

Dan’s nonsensical school stance was self-indulgent

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In normal times, most of us couldn’t care less about most of the decisions taken by our politicians. Powered by ...

Aussie industry fears ‘trade war’ with China over COVID inquiry

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Australian industry leaders are bracing for a full-scale trade war with Beijing after China suspended imports from four local meatworks ...

Government accused of ’hypocrisy’ for hiding COVID-19 advice

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The Morrison Government has been accused of “hypocrisy” for refusing to release details of the advice it received about coronavirus ...

Fears staggered school will spark family disputes

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Parents should brace for family disputes when some children return to school before others, experts warned. Powered by WPeMatico

Facing life in confinement after COVID-19

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The global coronavirus pandemic has made long-awaited services available for people like Ricky, who has been mostly bedbound for the ...