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Over the past 20 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a profound disruption to Australians’ daily lives. Many of our daily activities and schedules have changed beyond recognition, including the way we work, go to school, see friends and family, play sport, travel, exercise and engage in hobbies. Economic insecurity and increased job loss have propelled many Australians into financial stress. With the recent Australian outbreak of the Delta Variant, there is widespread uncertainty about what the future will look like. The evidence collated in this synthesis contains important depth and insights, but it is not exhaustive. It draws on a wide-ranging knowledge base including Australian and international published literature, government plans, budgets, policy reports, inquiries, grey literature and public commentary about the mental health and wellbeing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and voices from those who have generously shared their experiences around COVID-19 and mental health. At the time of writing (August/September 2021), NSW, VIC and the ACT are amid another extended lockdown and SA, WA, the NT and QLD have been in-and-out of snap lockdowns, and with a slower than hoped vaccine rollout, there may be more lockdowns and border closures to come.

Mental health support services are overwhelmed. Expanded mental health funding and servicesannounced by the Federal Government and selected state governments are vitally important andwelcomed by the sector, but in many cases take time to be fully established. Temporary government funded economic supports, JobKeeper and the Coronavirus Supplementfor Youth Allowance and JobSeeker , introduced in 2020, played a key role in reducing mental ill health for Australians. Despite the clear indicators of the worsening mental health crisis during the current 2021lockdowns, economic supports remain limited and hard to access. Economic supports which havebeen introduced during the current lockdowns do not have many of the key features that made the2020 schemes so successful, in terms of boosting the economy and supporting people’s mental health.

Legal explainer about the workers' compensation rights of employees who catch COVID at work

The Museum of Futures: Pandemic Pivots is a work of collaborative foresight and participatory futures. In 2020, it is clear that we are living in post-normal times. A summer of catastrophic bushfires followed by a global pandemic has shown us all the importance of thinking about the future. In this exhibition, ten communities explored how they hoped that life in Sydney would pivot after the Covid-19 pandemic. Their ideas were given to nine Australian artists to interpret into works that you see in this exhibition. Alongside each work you will also see the 'history' of what happened to make this future occur.

Student Summer Research Awards, University College Dublin, Ireland, 28 September 2021 An abundance of literature is being published reporting the negative mental health sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic. This surge in mental health problems will likely present to primary care over the coming months. Initiatives are being proposed nationally and internationally to tackle this problem. It is of utmost importance for general practitioners to have interventions in place which can improve care of these mental illnesses. This research aims to undertake a scoping review of the literature to examine interventions which could be implemented in general practice post COVID-19 to improve care of mental health disorders arising from the pandemic.

A new project that spotlights the strain from COVID-19 on our health systems and the people who work in them has invited health-care leaders and artists to create artworks that illuminate what it has been like leading, working and living through the pandemic.

#DISSCovid Virtual Conference, June 18th, 2021

External Modelling 1 is the Quasar .ows model to process the Source data 1 to generate the PCA plot shown in Figure 4B and loadings plots in Figure 4C. External Modelling 2 is the MCDCV-PLS-DA Matlab model that can be used in combination with PLS-Tool Box to generate the Receiver Operating Curves (ROC) and the prediction model shown in Figures 4D and 4E, respectively. Source Data 1 is for the PCA modelling. Source Data 2 for the MCDCV-PLS-DA.

The Editorial Board have prepared a podcast describing their experiences over the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Editorial Board describe how COVID-19 impacted their research and how the initial clinical response changed over the course of the year in terms of treatment, personal protective equipment (PPE), and policy changes. The podcast and transcript can be viewed below the abstract of the online version of the manuscript. Alternatively, the podcast and transcript can be downloaded here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14402291