La Trobe university will become the first Australian university to mandate vaccination against COVID-19 for all staff and students. Vice chancellor John Dewar announced a two-staged approach to safely reopening its campuses later this year once the nation hits vaccine ...
More »Most parents keen to get kids jabbed, vaccine hesitancy at all time low: ANU analysis
Most Australian parents are happy to get their children vaccinated, according to a new analysis by the Australian National University. A survey of over 3000 adults found that four in five parents were likely to get their children vaccinated if ...
More »‘This can’t be the new norm’: the effects of the pandemic on Australia’s academic landscape
A study on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Australian academics and their respective institutions has just been released, highlighting some concerning findings but also some "silver linings". The study, published in the Higher Education Research and Development journal and ...
More »Sydney Islamic leaders band together, USYD’s Marie Bashir Institute launch series of videos to push the vax message
Sydney Islamic leaders have banded together to push their communities to get vaccinated as authorities struggle to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the city’s west. The NSW government on Thursday 19 August revealed the suburbs with the fastest growing ...
More »‘We can‘t tolerate that’: UOW students expelled from dorms for COVID breaches
A handful of students from a top university have been expelled from their accommodation after they hosted dorm room parties during lockdown. The students have been removed from Campus East of the University of Wollongong (UOW) for breaching NSW Health orders by having two gatherings ...
More »What one institution learnt from transitioning to online learning – opinion
Virtually overnight, IT teams across the higher education sector leapt into action to transition lesson delivery from face-to-face to online in the face of COVID-19 restrictions. But the feat of making the impossible possible unearthed some valuable learnings. It was ...
More »Respected scientists quit journal board over article claiming COVID-19 vaccines kill, emboldening anti vaxxers
At a time when vaccine hesitancy and misinformation has gathered traction in some circles around the world, it seems unbelievable that a peer-reviewed journal would be complicit in promulgating similar mistruths. But that is exactly what has recently happened. A ...
More »Experts recommend NSW extend lockdown to lessen effects of pandemic
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 ...
More »Academic shines light on Melbourne Covid outbreak variant as ‘fitter’ strains persist
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 ...
More »Epidemiologists warn Australians won’t be fully vaccinated by Christmas, describing rollout as ‘snail’s pace’
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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