- Professor of Environmental Economics and Biosecurity, The University of Melbourne
We calculated lost productivity due to long COVID. The impacts were greatest among people aged 30 to 49.
We make long term plans for railways, submarines and manufacturing. Why not for getting ready for rising seas?
Every year, air pollution kills 2,600 Australians. Australia’s new climate policy regime must account for this and other harms climate change wreaks on society.
NSW needs to mandate masks outdoors, provide adequate financial support, set up a ‘ring of steel’, use rapid tests for essential workers, and ensure cases not in full isolation get to zero, among others.
Australian National University modelling has a good record on predicting infections. Deaths will depend on the extent of the lockdown.
Improvements in knowledge and control methods mean eradicating the Australian invasion is challenging, but still potentially feasible.
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