Opinion
Time for close examination of pandemic emergency powers
MPs need to subject the extraordinary powers wielded by non-elected officials to independent scrutiny, argues Sarah Moulds.
Opinion
MPs need to subject the extraordinary powers wielded by non-elected officials to independent scrutiny, argues Sarah Moulds.
News
Nurses have launched action in the South Australian Employment Tribunal in a bid to improve staffing levels they say are creating “dangerous conditions” at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital emergency department.
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The outgoing head of the SA Ambulance Service is confident South Australia would be “well placed” to cope with a large COVID outbreak such as that now experienced by New South Wales, despite record ramping outside Adelaide hospitals.
The Morrison government still doesn’t have China’s permission to evacuate hundreds of Australians amid the coronavirus crisis, which has now been declared a global health emergency as the death toll in China reaches 212.
As bushfires raged and climate change dominated national debate, arson as an alternative cause began to rise on social media. Analysis showed many accounts were suspicious and using the same disinformation tactics used in elections overseas, say Timothy Graham and Tobias R. Keller.
Australia’s bushfires crisis demonstrates the need for bipartisan emergency planning and a national, professional emergency taskforce, argues Dale Dominey-Howes.
