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when television hosts take their shows home they fuel nostalgia

  • Written by: Edith Jennifer Hill, PhD Candidate, Flinders University
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Social media is currently filled with working from home content: from our friends, but also from celebrities.

As late night hosts shift to broadcasting from home, I am filled with nostalgia for a recent past: YouTube in its infancy, soon after its birth in 2005.

Back then, we saw glimpses of private lives filmed on laptop cameras in...

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This isn't the first global pandemic, and it won't be the last. Here's what we've learned from 4 others throughout history

  • Written by: David Griffin, Infectious Diseases Fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
This isn't the first global pandemic, and it won't be the last. Here's what we've learned from 4 others throughout historyShutterstock

The course of human history has been shaped by infectious diseases, and the current crisis certainly won’t be the last time.

However, we can capitalise on the knowledge gained from past experiences, and reflect on how we’re better off this time around.


Read more: Four of the most lethal infectious diseases of...

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can sex in isolation be as fulfilling as real life?

  • Written by: Jennifer Power, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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The public health response to COVID-19 has placed unprecedented limits on social contact. Many people may go without physical sexual intimacy for an extended (and indefinite) period.

Given human touch and connection are fundamental to humanity, this could have significant implications for the well-being of those who are single or apart...

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Australia has truly excellent food security

  • Written by: Steve Hatfield-Dodds, Executive Director, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES)
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COVID-19 has taken Australia and the world by surprise. Coming after severe droughts in eastern Australia, concerns have been raised about Australian food security.

The concerns are understandable, but they are misplaced.

Despite temporary shortages of some food items in supermarkets caused by an unexpected surge in demand, Australia...

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  2. APRA's extraordinary gift to banks under pressure to pay dividends
  3. Intergenerational fairness puts COVID-19 obligation on older people
  4. Government funding to Qantas and Virgin to ensure air services on key routes
  5. Even in a pandemic, continue with routine health care and don't ignore a medical emergency
  6. a guide to coughs in the time of coronavirus
  7. new warnings on New Zealand's rivers and lakes
  8. Hackers can access your mobile and laptop cameras and record you – cover them up now
  9. How much has Australia really flattened the curve of coronavirus? Until we keep better records, we don't know
  10. East Asian vloggers celebrate the domestic space
  11. Five ways New Zealanders' lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases
  12. What can benefit-cost analysis tell us?
  13. Hospitals have stopped unnecessary elective surgeries – and shouldn't restart them after the pandemic
  14. Hospital beds and coronavirus test centres are needed fast. Here's an Australian-designed solution
  15. Supermarket shelves stripped bare? History can teach us to 'make do' with food
  16. How many COVID-19 cases are in each NSW suburb? Search by postcode here
  17. For children in foster care, the coronavirus pandemic could be extremely destabilising
  18. Eradicating the COVID-19 coronavirus is also the best economic strategy
  19. how advertisers are using (and abusing) the coronavirus to sell
  20. Donald Trump blames everyone but himself for the coronavirus crisis. Will voters agree?
  21. The coronavirus contact tracing app won't log your location, but it will reveal who you hang out with
  22. Worried about your drinking during lockdown? These 8 signs might indicate a problem
  23. live animals are stressed in wet markets, and stressed animals are more likely to carry diseases
  24. We don’t know what we’ve got till it’s gone – we must reclaim public space lost to the coronavirus crisis
  25. Students less focused, empathic and active than before – technology may be to blame
  26. Regional media get COVID lifeline but ABC, SBS remain in peril
  27. what Donald Trump's funding cuts to WHO mean for the world
  28. Drug use may increase the risk of coronavirus. Here's how to reduce the harms
  29. How will the coronavirus recession compare with the worst in Australia's history?
  30. what did the High Court find in the Annika Smethurst v AFP case?
  31. The High Court rules in favour of News Corp, but against press freedom
  32. Media receives some government relief after coronavirus hit
  33. There's a good chance you're new to The Conversation – here's how we deliver news differently
  34. A temporary income tax hike is the bitter but equitable pill Australia should swallow
  35. New Zealand's coronavirus elimination strategy has united a nation. Can that unity outlast lockdown?
  36. How to keep a coronavirus-safe distance when you're jogging or cycling
  37. Great time to try: learning to draw
  38. Banning visitors to aged care during coronavirus raises several ethical questions – with no simple answers
  39. how to help the young
  40. Fix housing and you'll reduce risks of coronavirus and other disease in remote Indigenous communities
  41. The psychology of comfort food
  42. For most universities, there's little point to the government's COVID-19 assistance package
  43. what makes hairdressing 'essential'? Even the hairdressers want to close
  44. why pets are at risk during this pandemic
  45. beware the cyber risks of virtual meet-up apps like Houseparty
  46. How some Australian media are failing us on coronavirus
  47. how white roofs help to reflect the sun's heat
  48. National and state leaders may not always agree, but this hasn't hindered our coronavirus response
  49. View from The Hill – So you wanted to spend more time with the kids?
  50. What does it mean to be immunocompromised? And why does this increase your risk of coronavirus?

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