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Peter Doherty and Premier Daniel Andrews with Geoff and Anna Cumming at the announcement of The Cumming Centre for Global Pandemic Therapeutics.

How a chat over a glass of wine turned into a $250 million research fund for Melbourne

The inside story of how a Canadian businessman donated $250 million to fund a pandemic research centre in Melbourne.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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Former top public servant Peter Shergold will lead an independent review of how Australia handled the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Short and sharp’ lessons: Experts to examine how Australia handled pandemic

In the absence of a government review into the COVID-19 response, a trio of philanthropic groups has stepped up with an expert panel.

  • Katina Curtis
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Gremlin or Grinch? In a Melbourne lab, Omicron grows in a test tube

“It doesn’t happen by magic.” Peering through a microscope in her laboratory at the Doherty Institute, Professor Deborah Williamson saw the glowing orb for the first time.

  • Timna Jacks
Rapid antigen tests could be used to keep children in school.

‘Test to stay’: COVID screening before school could replace class quarantine

New Doherty Institute modelling shows rapid antigen tests for students before their school day works just as well as quarantining an entire class.

  • Rachel Clun
Mask-wearing indoors is here to stay as health authorities work to prevent large uncontrolled outbreaks even as vaccination rates rise.

COVID-19 will remain a ‘fire’ fought on multiple fronts, Doherty Institute says

Mask-wearing will remain indefinitely in some settings as experts predict strict lockdowns will not protect COVID-free parts of the country from the pandemic forever.

  • Rachel Clun
Scott Morrison releases the Doherty Institute modelling underpinning the national plan.

Delta more deadly than national plan assumes

The research team whose work underpins Australia’s pandemic exit strategy believes the Delta strain of the virus is significantly more deadly than they assumed when the national plan was adopted.

  • Chip Le Grand
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jobs plummeted by 146,000 in August as people lost employment or worked zero hours due to prolonged lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne.

Reopening, resistance and the long tail of ‘zero COVID’

Extreme positions on COVID-19 are still being staked out in the medical establishment, the academy and parts of the media.

  • Michael Koziol
Empty streets in Melbourne’s CBD in August.

COVID safety rating system floated amid warnings of reopening risks

A leading infectious diseases expert has suggested businesses should be subject to a star rating system based on the vaccination rates of staff and other COVID-19 safety practices so that consumers can have the confidence to enter premises once lockdowns end.

  • Emma Koehn
Professor Sharon Lewin says at-home antigen testing will be an important part of living with COVID.

Home testing key to living with COVID, but Australia a two-tier country: Doherty Institute

Twenty months into the pandemic, the advances have been incredible - but the head of the Doherty Institute says there will be more challenges around the corner.

  • Rachel Clun
Composite - Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk watches Health Minister Yvette D’Ath speak at the Queensland government’s COVID vaccination hub at the Logan Entertainment Centre, south of Brisbane on Thursday, August 19, 2021. Pic by Matt Dennien.
Shadow Minister for National Reconstruction, Employment, Skills and Small Business Richard Marles during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra on  Wednesday 26 May 2021. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese  during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 3 September 2021. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

‘A fine line between too weak and too strong’: Labor grapples with a policy to open up

The next few months promise to be difficult for the federal Labor opposition as it tries to balance political support for the plan to re-open Australia with some ALP state premiers reluctant to budge.

  • James Massola and Michael Koziol

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