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  • Seven deadly twins: The miracle of modern science that will one day save millions of Covid deaths

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    Factors including climate change, disruption of animal habitats, poverty and global travel mean we’re only likely to see more pandemics in the future. It’s impossible to predict exactly when the next pandemic will happen, or what it will be. But experts around the world are working to prepare for this inevitable “disease X”. One of…

  • Aussie scientists make breakthrough on long Covid: Find cells with long memories

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    A Doherty Institute study found memory “T cells” that recognise long-COVID can be established and fight subsequent infections for two years. T cells fight viral infections by killing off infected cells and can remember what they have encountered. The study, which targeted the previously under researched area of long-COVID immunity, found specific T cells within…

  • Super withdrawals during Covid were the least effective economic support measure

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    Back in the shocking days at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the federal government moved quickly to enable cash-strapped Australians to pay for the basic necessities of life. Those measures not only kept families and individuals afloat, they kept the economy alive. Now with more than four years since those actions were taken, research…

  • Covid outbreak spreads among Australian Olympic team

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    Swimming Australia’s head coach Rohan Taylor has revealed some swimmers raced with Covid during their nine-day program at the pool. While some swimmers withdrew from races including Lani Pallister and Ella Ramsay, others competed with the virus. Zac Stubblety-Cook, silver medallist in the men’s 200m breatstsroke, was among those who continued to compete despite testing…

  • How Queensland will extract itself from the shambles of the 2020s

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      The 2020s have changed us in lots of different ways, but there were a truckload of things no one ever saw coming, like the vast number of people who can’t afford to put food on the table or pay rent, or the increase in the number of people sleeping in cars. Everything from who…

  • Poor old Joe: Biden tests positive for Covid as leading Democrats turn against him

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    The news came as California Representative Adam Schiff has become the highest-profile Democrat to call for US President Joe Biden to drop his re-election bid. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after he pulled out of a scheduled event. “He is vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild…

  • Spike in winter illnesses

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    Cases of whooping cough, the flu and gastro have surged, with the spike in illness hitting children hard and adding “unprecedented” pressure on some hospitals. More than 170,000 influenza cases have been confirmed in Australia so far in 2024, with 29 per cent of them in children under nine years of age. Infections Australia-wide are…

  • Tourism getting back on track as spending exceeds pre-Covid levels

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    International tourists spent $30.9 billion in Australia in the year to March 2024, slightly above pre-pandemic spending levels, according to data from Tourism Research Australia. Half the states and territories across Australia exceeded 2019 spending levels. South Australia recorded the greatest improvement, with spending at 120 per cent of pre-COVID levels, followed by Western Australia…

  • Workers’ compensation and the sharp end of vaccine mandates

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    A recent decision by the South Australian Employment Tribunal (SAET) has shed new light and developed new law on the consequences of mandating Covid vaccines as an employer. In the case of Shepherd v State of South Australia, the SAET found that an employer making a vaccine mandatory and threatening employment consequences if the vaccine…

  • The crap gift that keeps on giving

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    A naughty secret hides in the broom closets of even our most God-fearing households. It’s the Shit Gift Box. Pardon the French. The SGB, as we shall call it from this point on, is the box where a family squirrels away Christmas gifts they have received that are either too big, small, ugly or useless,…