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Religious groups are embracing technology during the lockdown, but can it replace human connection?

  • Written by: Anna Halafoff, Associate Professor in Sociology, Deakin University
Religious groups are embracing technology during the lockdown, but can it replace human connection?Dan Peled/AAP

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced religious congregations to stay at home after the doors have been closed to their churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and gurdwaras across Australia.

But religious life has not stopped. Congregations are discovering new ways to meet virtually on plenty of online video platforms.

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What is sentinel surveillance and how might it help in the fight against coronavirus?

  • Written by: Nic Geard, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne

By international standards, Australia has had considerable success in containing the COVID-19 outbreak. As the number of new cases continues to decline, several states have announced they will begin to ease restrictions.

But debate about when and how we can ease physical distancing measures safely remains ongoing.

Modifying restrictions too soon, or...

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The evidence that lockdowns work may not be gold standard, but it's good

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
The evidence that lockdowns work may not be gold standard, but it's good SCOTT BARBOUR/AAP

As Australia begins gradually to relax some of its containment measures (so-called nonpharmaceutical interventions or NPIs) we are confronted with a number of questions

  • when will children be back at school full time?

  • when might restaurants and pubs be open and will the public continue to respect social-distancing rules when they...

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  1. Disasters expose gaps in emergency services' social media use
  2. Sending children back to school during coronavirus has human rights implications
  3. grief and things of stone, wood and wool
  4. Want an economic tonic, Mr Morrison? Use that stimulus money to turbocharge renewables
  5. Australia's links with China must change, but decoupling is not an option
  6. New roadmap gives Australia two paths out of COVID-19 lockdown: elimination or adaptation
  7. People with coronavirus are at risk of blood clots and strokes. Here's what we know so far
  8. Can the government defy history and return Eden-Monaro to 'bellwether' status?
  9. Is remdesivir a miracle drug to cure coronavirus? Don't get your hopes up yet
  10. it's an intriguing but unproven link
  11. We need to flatten the 'other' coronavirus curve, our looming mental health crisis
  12. No, Aussie bats won’t give you COVID-19. We rely on them more than you think
  13. Vale Robert May, the legendary scientist who helped us understand ecosystems, chaos theory and even pandemics
  14. The COVIDSafe app was just one contact tracing option. These alternatives guarantee more privacy
  15. Virtual hackathons can help you solve coronavirus problems without leaving your home
  16. COVID lockdowns have human costs as well as benefits. It's time to consider both
  17. Australia has long valued an outer space shared by all. Mining profits could change this
  18. Need help selling the COVIDSafe app? Call a behavioural economist
  19. how nations that moved fast against COVID-19 avoided disaster
  20. a look inside the dismal living conditions of migrant workers
  21. Say hello to the 'crazy beast' mammal who lived among the dinosaurs
  22. Air quality near busy Australian roads up to 10 times worse than official figures
  23. Playing Pandemic - the hit board game about the very thing we're trying to avoid
  24. how coronavirus will change the way we work together
  25. Should I drop my private health insurance during the pandemic?
  26. That estimate of 6.6 million Australians on JobKeeper, it tells us how it can be improved
  27. Katy Gallagher on the Senate's coronavirus watchdog
  28. Can't go outside? Even seeing nature on a screen can improve your mood
  29. why can't people hear in their sleep?
  30. How will the class of COVID-19 get into university? Using year 11 results is only part of the answer
  31. Mobile phones are covered in germs. Disinfecting them daily could help stop diseases spreading
  32. 250 years since Captain Cook landed in Australia, it's time to acknowledge the violence of first encounters
  33. how Captain Cook blundered his first impression with Indigenous people
  34. teachers say they lack confidence to teach Indigenous perspectives
  35. Captain James Cook and absent presence in First Nations art
  36. how Botany Bay was chosen over Africa as a new British penal colony
  37. My ancestors met Cook in Aotearoa 250 years ago. For us, it's time to reinterpret a painful history
  38. An honest reckoning with Captain Cook's legacy won't heal things overnight. But it's a start
  39. revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse
  40. The stories of Tupaia and Omai and their vital role as Captain Cook's unsung shipmates
  41. for Indigenous people, Cook's voyage of 'discovery' was a ghostly visitation
  42. Botany and the colonisation of Australia in 1770
  43. Captain Cook 'discovered' Australia, and other myths from old school text books
  44. how re-enactments of the Endeavour's voyage perpetuate myths of Australia's 'discovery'
  45. Is God good? In the shadow of mass disaster, great minds have argued the toss
  46. Captain Cook wanted to introduce British justice to Indigenous people. Instead, he became increasingly cruel and violent
  47. why higher carbon dioxide levels isn't only good news even if some plants grow faster
  48. Physical distancing is here for a while – over 100 experts call for more safe walking and cycling space
  49. What is psoriatic arthritis, the condition Kim Kardashian West lives with?
  50. we'll need war bonds, and stimulus on a scale not seen in our lifetimes

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