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State-society relations in a pandemic: an Asian Australian perspective

…rights for the sake of public health may have become common Australian values during the COVID-19 pandemic—strengthening our resilient multicultural society. Authors: Haina Lee and…

Vietnam and COVID-19: More Mark (Zuckerberg) than Marx

…Lap; and Đặng Hùng Võ. On Facebook, some Vietnamese give their names with diacritics, some do not. Related webinar: Governance or social resilience: Learning from…

COVID-19, women and digitised food networks in Jakarta: Inequality and resilience

…sufficient. Fundamental and systemic changes to labour markets and food systems are needed. Authors: Dr. Inaya Rakhmani, Dr. Ariane Utomo, Dr. Catherine Phillips, Dr. Diahhadi…

South Korea’s prospects for a middle-power alliance in the era of COVID-19

Throughout the history of humankind, plague and disease such as malaria, measles, smallpox, and the Black Death, have decimated indigenous populations and even whole civilizations.…

Suicide, under-employment and poverty: the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in Japan

Japan has so far been perceived as handling the COVID-19 pandemic relatively well. Although the number of newly recorded cases of infection has been soaring…