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Health workforce and COVID-19
The north west of Tasmania is currently experiencing the strictest COVID-19 lock down of any part of the nation. Between 1,000 and 1,200 hospital staff are quarantined with their households (a total of probably 5,000 people), and only essential activities allowed across the region. Several of the people infected are health workers, a group that […]
Protecting against the unintended consequences of social isolation
Social isolation, job losses and economic downturn, not to mention the prospect of lethal illness, will almost certainly be heightening anxiety for all of us. But for many Australians an extra danger – family violence – also lurks within the home and will be exacerbated by isolation or quarantine. Family violence is difficult to respond […]
Informing Tasmania’s response, recovery and post-COVID future
As in many things, Tasmania is experiencing COVID-19 in ways that differ from other states. We knew being an island could give us faster and tighter control of our borders, and we know our demographics make us more vulnerable – physically, socially and economically – to the virus. These differences are evident to those leading […]
COVID-19: Housing market opportunity for counter cyclical investment in social housing
Jacqueline De Vries, Data Analyst The full effect of Covid-19 on the Tasmanian economy will not be known for some time to come, but it is likely to induce a recession with a range of impacts on the housing market. If the construction industry remains an essential service and continues to operate through an economic […]
Reshaping the Lucky Country
Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania The COVID-19 global pandemic has revealed an inconvenient truth for Australia; we have a national economy founded on consumption. In fact, it is both our societal values and underlying political ideologies which are geared to increasing consumption to grow our economy rather than […]
