Cases, deaths and coronavirus tests: how Australia compares to the rest of the world
Australia’s COVID-19 performance visualised by The Conversation with Our World in Data.
Costs of Coronavirus and new methologies revealed in March quarter National Accounts
Data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals a 0.3 percent contraction in Australia’s economy for the March quarter.. The ABS has also flagged changes in the seasonal [...]
Household Impacts of COVID-19: ABS Survey
Latest ABS snapshot about how Australian households are faring in response to the changing social and economic environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eminent Mathematicians and Statisticians elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Sciences
Mathematicians Professors Robyn Owens and Gary Froyland, and statistician Professor Aurore Delaigle are three of the 24 top scientists elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Sciences. [...]
Australia’s COVID-19 lifestyles revealed in latest ABS reporting
One in five Australians is eating more snack foods with a similar proportion increasing alcohol consumption. Household chores, hobbies and cooking participation levels increased. Read the latest [...]
Statistician Sir Adrian Smith elected as Royal Society President
AMSI conveys its warm congratulations to Sir Adrian Smith upon his election as President of the Royal Society, a role he will assume at the end of November. A highly distinguished statistician, [...]
The positives and negatives of mass testing for coronavirus
No test is perfect and all carry a risk of harm of some kind … we must recognise this is also true for coronavirus. Jennifer MacLachlan and Benjamin Cowie of the Doherty Institute on [...]
The costs of the shutdown are overestimated – they’re outweighed by its $1 trillion benefit
Economists Richard Holden (UNSW) and Bruce Preston (University of Melbourne) counter the movement advocating more rapid relaxation of containment measures on the basis of economic costs, and the [...]
April Labour Market Statistics for Australia: “the scale and speed are difficult to comprehend”
University of Melbourne economist Professor Jeff Borland overview in ‘The Conversation’ this morning. [Read more]
AMSI Online Resources Explain the Mathematics of Disease
AMSI is offering free online resources including videos informing the community of the power of mathematics, statistics and data modelling in the epidemeological response to the COVID-19 crisis [...]
