Disaster payments to stop regardless of lockdown
This is really mean. The Treasurer announced today that once vaccination rates reach 70 percent, disaster payments will start to be phased out. They will then be tapered off over …
Youth at back of vax queue
Young Australians are some of the hardest hit demographics from COVID-19 and the impact of the crisis will be felt for decades to come. When the talk of vaccines and …
Royal Commission into pandemic response essential
The health, social and economic impact of COVID-19 in Australia has been significant, with bungled quarantine, inconsistent border management policies and a failed mass vaccination program. Scientists had warned for …
Our pandemic response action plan
While Australia has avoided the worst of the global pandemic, it has only been because of a combination of geography, luck, and hard border closures. As time goes on, it …
Vaccine rollout and uptake absurdly slow
While the USA today announced that 50% of adults have been fully vaccinated, Australia is languishing, with less than 2% of Australian adults now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In 3 …
Budget: Health
New funding for mental health and suicide prevention, women’s health – including long-sought-after investment in endometriosis research and treatment – is welcome in this budget but falls short across the …
More reasons to give up gas
The Climate Council released its report today – Kicking the Gas Habit: How gas is harming our health. The findings of the report were that children living in houses with gas …
Flight ban from India irrational and let’s help Africa
Preventing Australian citizens coming home from India on the basis of Covid cases makes no sense. The penalties applied – jail terms of up to five years and fines of …
Market gets rid of old, dirty Yallourn power
Update: Yallourn means high time for a carbon price says Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW 12 March. We couldn’t agree more – see here for our $30/tonne plan. Professor …
President-elect Biden – much to celebrate and do on climate and covid
It is a great relief that the majority of American people have elected Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as the first woman to become Vice President in American history. The …
