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Coronavirus animal origin | Can pets carry coronavirus?

Today we discuss the current findings on the coronavirus animal origin, as well as research on how coronavirus may affect pets.

Chief medical officer Brendan Murphy. (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

The man behind the eyebrows: just who is Brendan Murphy? 

The pandemic has rocketed chief medical officer Brendan Murphy from bureaucratic obscurity to celebrity. Inq profiles Australia's top doctor.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Virus Watch: six days is all you need to breed a pandemic 

A recent report suggests the world could look very different if China had acted on the coronavirus just six days earlier than it did.

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Even when the crisis is over, telehealth is here to stay

By the time the coronavirus lockdown is over, telehealth services will be well and truly embedded in our health care system. And that might not be such a bad thing.

There's an app for that. But is there an aptitude for trust?

Giving the authorities the ability to track our movements to help fight the spread of COVID-19 seems to make a lot of sense. But taking back our privacy when the crisis is over may not be so easy.

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Just how much does the government say a human life is worth?

Can we really put a cost on human life? The answer is yes, and it happens more often than you think — as the pandemic has proved.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Prime Minister Scott Morrison. (Image: AAP/David Gray)

The political fault lines are real — and only slightly submerged

The coronavirus crisis has smoothed over some political divisions, but under the surface-level bipartisanship, fault lines remain.

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Don't lockout citizenship in the name of locking down the pandemic

This is an opportunity to change the archaic relationship of citizens and government. We need more information now, not less.

Bret Walker SC during the Murray Darling Basin Royal Commission (Image: AAP/Morgan Sette)

New Ruby Princess inquiry needs to place NSW government in the spotlight

As more and more questions emerge each day, the NSW government's 'powerful and independent' inquiry into the Ruby Princess debacle must look at the role of the government itself.

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Plus ça change: division and tribalism may not alter as much as we're telling ourselves

For all the claims that the world has changed, the same patterns of tribalism, self-interest and abuse of power are persisting through the pandemic.