The life-threatening and economic hazards of relaxing Covid-19 restrictions before zero community spread is reached validates the decision by NSW to extend its lockdown, researchers suggest. A team of economists, public health experts and modellers from the Australian National University found the ...
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An Australian professor has shone a light on the Covid‐19 variant that is wreaking havoc on Victoria. UNSW associate professor Stuart Turville said the Indian strain, as it has become known, was one of three that had spread throughout the ...
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Leading epidemiologists are warning that Australians will not be fully vaccinated by Christmas, based on the current speed of the sluggish rollout, as Victorians were on Sunday turned away from getting the jab. The state’s struggling vaccination program was blasted ...
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CampusReview · Annual survey reveals the stress levels and stressors of students in 2020 - podcast As the 2021 Australian university year is in full swing, research commissioned by Studiosity revealed that 38 per cent of students were feeling stressed ...
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Three states are likely to receive rescue flights from India once a travel ban on the COVID-ravaged country ends this month, but stranded Australians who test positive to the virus will not be on-board. Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed on ...
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There are concerns toilets could spread COVID-19 because flushing could generate aerosols that linger in the air. A report published in the Medical Journal of Australia highlighted several examples of how coronavirus was spreading via airborne transmission including by “faecal ...
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Preliminary findings from a University of Sydney study have found that work from home policies have had the greatest impact on transport use in Australia in 70 years. Researchers concluded that such policies could save employees on average two hours ...
More »An uneven recovery for Australia’s university sector
Four more Australian universities have joined the list of institutions struggling to get back in the black, with the sector still beset by international border closures and poor investment returns. According to annual reports, the universities of Central Queensland, Curtin, ...
More »Training and its contribution to operational effectiveness during COVID-19: opinion
Training, applied and practised methodically, can and does make a significant contribution to the effective corporate structure. In difficult times like those thrown up by the pandemic, the main areas of focus should be in response to the question: “Is ...
More »International students want to delay, not cancel, their Australian studies: new research
A new report has found that most international students want to delay their studies abroad until COVID-19 travel restrictions are lifted rather than cancelling them altogether. And the good news is that Australia is still considered a top destination of ...
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