Writer
Stephen Alomes
Adjunct Professor Stephen Alomes (RMIT University) is a social researcher investigating power and powerlessness and contemporary populism. A member of medical advisory committees, in 2020 he presented on patient empowerment at the University of Tasmania clinical reform conference. His poetry collection recording everyday experience during the pandemic, Our Pandemic Zeitgeist (Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide) appeared in late 2020. He is also an expressionist painter of contemporary populist politicians and now of the anxieties, and the escapes from, the coronavirus. (Instagram/stephenalomes)
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Omicron’s relentless spread demands a new response
The country is mired in a directionless mess and will continue to flounder without a new narrative and a policy response that emphasises protection. Continue reading »
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Vaccination plus: A safe ticket to the great Aussie summer
For true freedom this summer, we’ll need more than vaccinations alone — public health safety is always a story of multiples. Continue reading »
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How the Doherty model has been politically weaponised.
Political agendas have become more important than health policy in our current response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading »
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The virus and social cultures: A national plan beyond Doherty
Australia needs a new and realistic national plan for emerging from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading »
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Expert denialism: federal Covid advisory committee slow to accept airborne evidence
Why the official reluctance in Australia to recognise aerosol transmission? Continue reading »
