Writer
Andrew Jakubowicz
Andrew Jakubowicz is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney.
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Why a Multiculturalism Act would help reduce Covid impacts on minorities
To be truly inclusive and equitable, Australia needs a federal statutory body that represents and supports people from ethnic communities. Continue reading »
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Reaching 80% vaccination isn’t the same for all communities. The vulnerable will continue to suffer.
The NSW government has made much of the promise that something good will happen when localities achieve 80 per cent of second jabs of eligible people. But not all numbers are equal. Continue reading »
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How Covid in NSW has revealed the differences and disadvantages of class, race, age and gender.
Gaming the virus in NSW: how fighting the last war will not win the next one.Premier Berejiklian is not listening. Continue reading »
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A tale of two cities in the same pandemic.
The eastern suburbs of Sydney became the seeding event for Delta’s entry to Australia. It was nurtured by a driver transferring infected airline personnel to quarantine at the nearby Kingsford Smith airport. Continue reading »
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Data hesitancy: class, race, ethnicity and geography in the viral dangers of Sydney
In Sydney an outbreak that started in the east, under lax surveillance and permissive admonitions poorly policed, has spread to the west where it has taken on draconian, oppressive and destructive forms in both its virology and its sociology. Continue reading »
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Going for CALD on Covid
Two outbreaks of Covid in Victoria occurred among Greek and Urdu communities – entirely predictable given that diverse communities had long been identified as potentially vulnerable. Despite repeated warnings no one in authority seemed to want to know. That is now being rectified to ensure the message on vaccines is heard loud and clear, with Continue reading »
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Cui Bono from the decline in Australia/China relations?
The dramatic decline in Australia China relations has paralleled the rise in the anti-China rhetoric from the Trump administration, capped by its naming of COVID as “the China virus”. Who benefits from this situation? Hint: it’s not China and it’s not Australia. Continue reading »
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Multicultural Australia in danger in resurgent pandemic. Part 2 What we know but need to know more about and why.
The national medical bureaucracy needs to make one change to its data collection about COVID-19 that will be disruptive in the short term but very productive in the medium and longer term. It may save lives, reduce morbidity, protect social cohesion and help save the economy. But it hasn’t. Why is that? Continue reading »
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Multicultural Australia in danger in resurgent pandemic. Part 1: The problem
A dark hole sits at the heart of multicultural Australia – the data by-pass on how the COVID19 virus pandemic is affecting our culturally diverse communities. Continue reading »
