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  • Building a culture of peace

    Published on: 18 September 2020
    Monday 21 September marked a date when all humanity can commit to overcoming their differences and work towards building a culture of peace.

  • Preserve and protect

    Published on: 31 August 2020
    How far should governments go in restricting people's freedoms in the name of public health?

  • Health overhaul to fight pandemic of racism

    Published on: 17 August 2020
    Associate Professor Chelsea Bond from UQ’s School of Social Science said racial violence within the Australian health system is at the heart of continued health inequities and outlines new health justice framework in an article released today via The Medical Journal of Australia.

  • Driving a dialogue

    Published on: 11 August 2020
    The shocking footage of Floyd’s death was a brutal and extremely public demonstration of the systematic injustices that African Americans experience, and has led to a huge outcry of support around the world.
    In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have pointed out the distinct parallels between what is happening in the US and their own experiences in Australia.

  • How the Aussie music scene can bounce back

    Published on: 11 August 2020
    The Australian music industry needs a lifeline. Contact Magazine spoke with UQ’s School of Music Senior Lecturer, Dr Eve Klein, and UQ graduate and music venue owner, Scott Hutchinson, about the future of Australia’s live music scene post-pandemic.

  • The big question: How would a universal basic income system impact Australian society and its economic recovery post-COVID-19?

    Published on: 11 August 2020
    The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented financial impact on most Australians.

  • Pandemic politics: who will emerge in better health?

    Published on: 23 July 2020
    When the dust clears and global isolation restrictions are eventually rolled back, we will emerge into a post-pandemic world that will likely be very different to the one we left behind. But beyond the immediate social and economic fallout, what will be the global political consequences of COVID-19? UQ student and Contact magazine contributor Zoe McDonald interviewed experts from the School of Political Science and International Studies to analyse the situation.

  • The gift of family time

    Published on: 25 June 2020
    Survey results reveal positive outcomes from pandemic

  • The future of news media

    Published on: 17 June 2020

  • Digital contact tracing for Covid-19: new policy primer

    Published on: 2 June 2020
    Digital contact tracing solutions for COVID-19 must offer exceptional speed and achieve high take-up rates to be useful, according to a working paper released by The University of Queensland's Institute for Social Science Research and the Centre for Social Data Analytics (Auckland University of Technology).

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