Category: Australia COVID-19

Disobeying Valid Laws: When Is It Justified

March 2, 2023
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Commentary In 1970, the Sydney Morning Herald published an article entitled “How should we react to unjust laws?” The author, Ilmar Tammelo, argued that defiance of an allegedly “unjust” law leads to “awkward practical consequences” because “on critically important occasions, it may be extremely difficult to ascertain what is just and what is unjust.” In…

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Australians Told to Avoid People as COVID-19 “Variant Soup” Looms

November 21, 2022
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Deakin University associate professor in epidemiology Hassan Vally is warning about a COVID-19 “variant soup” consisting of five new strains leading the latest wave in Australia. “We never get too confident when we talk about the virus,” Vally told AAP. “Every time we think we’ve got a handle on it, there’s always a surprise around…

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Western Australia Farewells Emergency COVID-19 Powers

November 3, 2022
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Western Australia’s COVID-19 state of emergency has come to an end as the country braces for a new wave of infections. WA’s emergency powers expired overnight after more than two and a half years. They had been used by the McGowan government to take drastic measures earlier in the pandemic, including declaring border closures. In a…

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‘A Blunt Instrument’: Review Pans Australia’s Use of Lockdowns, School Closures

October 19, 2022
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A year on from some of Australia’s heaviest lockdowns, one of the largest non-government reviews into the country’s response has labelled many of the adopted policies “unprecedented” while criticising the use of lockdowns as “excessive” and “harsh.” “They proved to be a blunt instrument,” according to ‘Fault lines: An independent review into Australia’s response to COVID-19’…

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‘A Blunt Instrument’: New Review Scathing of Australia’s Use of Lockdowns, School Closures

October 19, 2022
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A year on from some of Australia’s heaviest lockdowns, one of the largest non-government reviews into the country’s response has labelled many of the adopted policies “unprecedented” while criticising the use of lockdowns as “excessive” and “harsh.” “They proved to be a blunt instrument,” according to ‘Fault lines: An independent review into Australia’s response to COVID-19’…

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Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs Expert Calls on Authorities to Suspend “Provisional Approval” Status Granted to COVID-19 Vaccines

September 15, 2022
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MELBOURNE, Australia—A clinical trials and pharmaceutical regulation affairs expert has urged Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to suspend the “provisional approval” status granted to COVID-19 vaccines and declared Australia’s drug adverse event reporting system “broken.” This comes after the TGA reported 135,978 cases of total adverse events following COVID-19 immunisations to Sept. 4. The TGA has also…

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Australia’s Adverse Drug Reporting System is ‘Broken,’ Says Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs Expert

September 15, 2022
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MELBOURNE, Australia—A clinical trials and pharmaceutical regulation affairs expert has declared Australia’s drug adverse event reporting system—Database of Adverse Event Notifications (DAEN)—“broken.” Dr. Phillip Altman has also urged Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)—the equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA)—to suspend the “provisional approval” status granted to COVID-19 vaccines. This comes after the…

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Queensland to Host Summit to Deal With Lockdown-Driven Migration, Homelessness

September 13, 2022
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The government of Queensland has announced a Housing Summit to deal with several issues plaguing the state’s housing market following an interstate migration boom driven by lockdowns in Australia’s big southern cities. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said an initial roundtable on Sept. 16 will be held followed by the larger Summit in October. “Nothing is more…

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COVID-19 Aged Care Deaths Not Being Scrutinised: MP

September 11, 2022
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The federal government should be scrutinised more over the rising number of COVID-19 deaths in aged care, an independent MP says. More than 3000 Australians have died with COVID-19 in aged care facilities this year, which is almost triple the number of deaths in the first two years of the pandemic. The aged care death…

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Australia Needs to Rethink COVID Restrictions: Premier

September 5, 2022
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Australian authorities have been told to rethink COVID-19 policies as the population is growing increasingly tired of health restrictions around the pandemic. New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet told Sky News Australia that authorities need to scrap the mandatory isolation period for COVID-19. This comes just days after the National Cabinet agreed to reduce the…

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