With the largest population in Australia, New South Wales also has the biggest healthcare scope: 150,000 staff looking after 8 million geographically dispersed people. WhenCOVID-19concerns hit Australia, NSW Health CIO Dr Zoran Bolevich said the state department found itself at the very centre o...
4 February:Passengers travelling on the now infamous Diamond Princess cruise ship were put under quarantine byJapanese health authorities. This was thefirstof many cruise ships involved in similar lockdowns, Diamond Princess quickly became the place with the highest number of cases outside of China....
Unlike other global crises, the COVID-19 pandemic offered researchers a unique opportunity to better understand the ways in which journalistic practices in the digital era could be adapted to handle new challenges. In this chapter, we are concerned with practices related to investigative journalism a...
Emboldened by this reform, sex workers in NSW founded a chapter of the Australian Prostitutes Collective (APC) in 1983. The APC’s research alliance named the Task Group on Prostitution produced ground-breaking studies that in turn generated the policy and regulations underpinning the decriminalis...
I can’t imagine not having this initiative. There are so many things that I have learned because of our efforts with Oiso Town, such as the fact that our users all have questions about the areas in which we work, or that they wanted to do these kinds of things with our products. ...
found that “[h] abitual consumption of sugar sweetened beverages was associated with a greater incidence of type 2 diabetes, independently of adiposity,” amounting to around 1.8 million cases in the US and 79,000 cases in the UK over a 10 year period [37]. The study, published in the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably accelerated the use of meal-delivery services, since restaurants in many countries were forced to suspend dine-in services and were only allowed to operate via meal-delivery, or other contactless distribution methods [55]. Consequently, many restaurants have ...
Policymakers try to deliver governance reforms within a complex policymaking environment over which they have limited understanding and even less control. In many cases, they settle for theappearanceof success, based on the popularity of their response or narrow indicators of outcomes, without addressing...
It's four more weeks of lockdown for Sydneysiders, with no end yet in sight. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is still to outline a roadmap out. Sydney feels like it is going through COVID Groundhog Day right now. And not just because many are having to cope with being confined to home...
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has called for more businesses to register as COVID Safe, as the state recorded 19 new cases of coronavirus in the 24 hours to 8pm Tuesday night. Berejiklian said: "If I walk into a venue and I'm not comfortable