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Life after lockdown

A series examining how the Covid-19 outbreak could change Australia for good

  • Dr Teresa Anderson, chief executive of the Sydney Local Health District, at the RPA Virtual Hospital, which opened just before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic.

    'The genie is out of the bottle': telehealth points way for Australia post pandemic

    From virtual hospitals to FaceTimed GP visits, innovations that have sprung up in response to coronavirus could transform a sector notoriously resistant to reform
  • Jack Begbie at his desk

    University upheaval: 'If people feel safe, we’ll see the students come back'

    Australia’s tertiary sector is both one of the greatest victims of the coronavirus contraction and vital to the road out
  • Fiona Ivits and son Kit Kennedy from Collingwood, Melbourne.

    'Free childcare has been amazing': Australian parents hope pandemic may pave way for reform

    The government has vowed to roll back universal free early education once the crisis passes, but returning to a pre-Covid-19 state could be politically fraught
  • Racheal Wellman, 23, a former barista in St Kilda, Melbourne, lost her job at the start of the coronavirus restrictions and is now on jobseeker.

    'Time to click reset': coronavirus offers chance to end Australia's welfare wars

    The doubling of jobseeker was the biggest change to social security in decades. Now experts want the government to push aside ideology and establish a permanent equitable safety net
  • Sara Blazey at her Blue Mountains home

    Transport after coronavirus: how will we fly, drive, commute and ride?

    Social distancing rules will ‘kill cities’, experts warn – and the future of mass transit hangs in the balance
  • Dylan Nichols in Melbourne.

    Work after coronavirus: how will it change when the lockdown is over?

    Entrenched unemployment? A permanent embrace of work from home? Several orthodoxies have emerged about the near future of employment
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