School closures
Yes, we’ve seen schools close. But the evidence still shows kids are unlikely to catch or spread coronavirus (The Conversation, June 2020)
Letters: our schools won’t be easy to mend (The Guardian, 12 July)
Myths around further education policy and student targets (The Guardian, 11 July)
Back-to-school strategy is lazy and flawed (The Guardian, 6 July)
Class bubbles and other troubles in education (The Guardian, 26 June)
Podcasts
Push for clearer COVID messaging in migrant communities as Victoria's hotspots grow (ABC RN, 20 June 2020)
Topics
- Jobkeeper package
- School Closures
- Border closures
- Impact on Australian economy
- Job losses
- WHO inquiry
- Covid-APP
- Impact on Year 12 – scrapping ATAR scores
- Family violence (increase in)
Impact on Australian economy
Editorial
The Guardian view on Covid-19 economics: the austerity con of deficit hysteria (The Guardian, 15 July)
The Guardian view on no visas for care work: adding insult to injury (Editorial, The Guardian, 15 July)
Socio-economic and health factors
Why has coronavirus locked down Melbourne public housing estates and who is affected? (ABC, July 4 2020)
The 'job snob' stereotype has been used for decades to denigrate the unemployed. Facts tell a different story (The Guardian, 2 July)
I'm a doctor on Melbourne's coronavirus front line. Suppression has failed — we need an elimination strategy now (ABC, 17 July)
As Victoria goes into coronavirus lockdown, it's time to consider moving infected people outside the home (ABC, 8 July)
Regional Victorians have mixed opinions about Melbourne's lockdown (ABC, 8 July)
Lockdown opinions
Jobkeeper Package
Covid-19 Jobkeeper articles and links
Restaurant owners step up for migrant workers – The Age 4 April 2020
Never waste a crisis (Jon Faine, opinon) – The Age 5 April 2020
Plea to ‘give something back’ to students – The Age 5 April 2020
Jobless, unwelcome, without a flight home – The Age 6 April 2020
1.5 metres apart, but in this together. (Political ad) – The Age 7 April 2020
PM warns nation as wage deal passes - The Age 9 April 2020
Shutdowns loom for childcare as rescue fails – The Age 9 April 2020
Job ads dive as deficit blows up – The Age 9 April 2020 pg 10
‘See Australia first’ call as borders set to stay closed – The Age 12 April 2020 pg 2
Players eligible for JobKeeper – The Age 15 April 2020 pg 42
A 50pc revenue slump at Seven will alarm investors -The Age 24 April 2020, pg 24
Thousands of council staff lose their jobs – The Age 20 April 2020, pg 3
State Libs may apply for JobKeeper - The Age 25 April 2020, pg10
Pubs in pain – The Age 29 April 2020, pg21
Crisis leaves oppositions with nothing much to say – The Age 3 May 2020, pg 17
Unions clash on fast food deal – The Age 5 May 2020, pg 8
This lockdown is the easy part – The Age 8 May 2020, pg 22
Life Out of Work – The Age 10 May 2020 pg 18
Record job losses ‘devastate’ nation – The Age Friday 15 May 2020
Don’t pull the rug out from under people – The Age 17 May 2020, pg29
Partners forced to split wage subsidy – The Age 25 May 2020, pg10
Three steps can return us to normality – The Age 25 May 2020, pg 12
End the conflict, embrace a new co-operative era – The Age 27 May 2020, pg 18
Five steps to save our prosperity – The Age 28 May 2020, pg 19
Buck stops here for JobKeeper gap – The Age 30 May 2020, pg 25
We are at our best in a crisis – The Age 30 May 2020, pg 28
'Robodebt 2.0': tax office tells hundreds of childcare providers they are ineligible for jobkeeper (The Guardian, 9 July)
Opinion
Removing jobkeeper and welfare boost 'high risk' for businesses and households (The Guardian, 10 June 2020)
A haircut, fresh food and freedom – the jobseeker rise changed my life (The Guardian, 14 July)
Australia’s mood darkens as coronavirus resurges, but this is not a normal political cycle (The Guardian, 14 July)
To make jobseeker fit for purpose, its temporary rise should be permanent (The Guardian, 14 July)
CovidSafe App
Opinion
COVIDSafe app a '$2 million failure', Bowen says (The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July)
COVIDSafe was 'sunscreen' for coronavirus, until it wasn't. Have we chosen the right solution to the pandemic? (ABC, 30 June)
How many people have downloaded the COVIDSafe app and how central has it been to Australia's coronavirus response? (ABC, 2 June)
Border closures
South Australia will re-open its borders to some states, but not others. Is that constitutional? (The Conversation, June 2020)
Why the NSW border won't shut despite a spike in Victorian coronavirus cases (ABC, June 2020)
AMA backs push to keep SA border closed after Victoria 'dropped the ball' on coronavirus (ABC, June 2020)
Morrison Government accepts Victorian closure but won't budge on High Court border challenges (ABC, 7 July)
Impact on year 12/VCE
No year 13, school leavers to receive their ATARs this year (ABC, April 2020)
Year 12 students will graduate with ATAR despite coronavirus disruption to schools, Education Minister Dan Tehan says (ABC, April 2020)
Coronavirus has disrupted these students' final year of high school — here's how they're dealing with it (ABC, April 2020)
VCE students short-changed by COVID-19 even if school year extended (ABC, April 2020) Opinion
Australian universities change admissions as coronavirus disrupts education (The Guardian, April 2020)
COVID-19 has thrown year 12 students’ lives into chaos. So what can we do? (The Conversation, April 2020)