No one will be held criminally responsible for a COVID-19 outbreak from hotel quarantine that led to the death of 768 people and one of the world’s longest lockdowns.
Perth-based natural wellness company Holista CollTech and its chief have been hit with $2 million in fines for falsely claiming its plant-based hand sanitiser killed COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic.
In the third and final part of this series,experts say the impact of COVID-era school closures on a generation of students is still unclear.
In part two of this series,experts discuss reports of students struggling and teachers being physically attacked in the aftermath of school closures during the pandemic.
Of the many responses to the pandemic,few had a greater impact than the mass closure of schools.
Closing Sydney’s schools was one of the biggest – and most controversial – calls made during the pandemic. But was it really necessary?
There’s cringeworthy content,then there’s the dross that this consultancy giant served up to its staff the other day.
The end of this month marks four years since the World Health Organisation declared China’s COVID-19 outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
The Burnet Institute says global COVID-19 deaths data underscores Australia’s success in saving lives in the first two years of the pandemic,but the “living with COVID” approach brought an 18-fold increase in the death rate.
Lawyers who have spent years trying to overturn unlawful fines issued during the pandemic also said the federal government had taken a “nothing to see here” approach.
The federal treasurer said he did not accept claims the review was a “light touch” exercise that should have been set up to investigate all aspects of the response.