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Editor's note
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Last night we heard the news that more than two million Australians had downloaded the government’s contact tracing app: COVIDSafe. That’s still shy of the 40% figure Scott Morrison says we need for the app to work, but promising nonetheless.
But once the app is downloaded – what then? As can be expected, the rollout hasn’t been infallible.
People with iPhones aren’t benefitting from the same level of usability as their android counterparts. And many people are calling on the government to publicly release the app’s source code, which might alleviate some of the privacy concerns.
Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies Mahmoud Elkhodr has reviewed the app for us, and runs through how it works.
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Noor Gillani
Assistant Editor - Technology
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Top story
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Mahmoud Elkhodr, CQUniversity Australia
While preliminary tests indicate user data isn't being sent to the government, a publicly-available source code is needed to ensure the app's transparency.
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Sky Croeser, Curtin University
Stay connected and engaged to the climate change cause, and you might find we emerge from the coronavirus crisis with more hope than before.
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Keith Rathbone, Macquarie University
The league is facing financial ruin unless it restarts play soon. Yet, even with strict biosecurity measures in place, there are significant questions as to whether it can effectively police itself.
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Joseph Banks portrait by Joshua Reynolds (circa 1771-1773).
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David Andress, University of Portsmouth
For celebrated botanist Joseph Banks, his voyage with James Cook was more about extending imperial power than simply discovery.
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Health + Medicine
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Arosha Weerakoon, The University of Queensland
If you still have most of your teeth and they're tightly jammed together, flossing is important. But for some people, simply flossing might not be enough.
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Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett, University of Wollongong; Steven Howard, University of Wollongong
For many children, the pandemic means staying at home, not seeing friends or going to the playground. It's difficult to regulate emotions with so much going on. But there are ways parents can help.
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Cities
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John L Hopkins, Swinburne University of Technology
After the 'world's biggest work-from-home experiment', many people (and their employers) might decide they needn't commute every day. If even a fraction do that, infrastructure needs will change.
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Elisa Palazzo, UNSW; Annette Bardsley, University of Adelaide; David Sanderson, UNSW
The disasters have come one after another. While they may not be entirely preventable, we can take many practical steps tailored to local needs and conditions to reduce the impacts on our cities.
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Arts + Culture
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Melanie Walters, University of Adelaide
While the name of the season - now online - suggests breaking through opera's glass ceiling, the violent imagery fits the context of ecological disaster, inequality, mental illness, and dystopia.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Following Mike Kelly's likely resignation from parliament in the seat of Eden-Monaro, Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese may be set to face off over the NSW seat
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
An "outlier" poll suggests most people approve of the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, but remain distrustful of the government's performance more broadly.
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Craig Mark, Kyoritsu Women's University
Japan's coronavirus infections continue to rise as its neighbors' curves flatten. Why aren't people listening to the government and staying home?
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Science + Technology
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Tom Spurling, Swinburne University of Technology; Garrett Upstill, Swinburne University of Technology
In the 1980s, CSIRO and its university collaborators set into motion a chain of events that would lead to the production of relenza, the first drug to successfully treat the flu.
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Environment + Energy
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Glenn Albrecht, University of Sydney
At a time of massive environmental change, we need to expand our language to be able to share the emotional upheavals they engender.
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