Gambling during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Year published: 2020
The aim of this paper is to provide a summary of gambling activity and gambling risk levels during the COVID-19 period, using high quality, national-level longitudinal data. Results presented in the paper show that between April 2019 and May 2020 there was a sharp decline in the number of…
Hardship, distress, and resilience: The initial impacts of COVID-19 in Australia
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Edwards, B, Gray, M & Sollis, K.
Year published: 2020
This paper provides a summary of the impact of COVID-19 on labour market outcomes, income, financial stress, social cohesiveness, political attitudes, subjective wellbeing, and psychological distress. It is based on data from the 33rd ANUpoll which collected information from 3,155 Australians over…
Improved wellbeing or distress? Measuring the impacts of participation in a COVID-19 survey on participant wellbeing
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Edwards, B, Herz, D & Sollis, K
Year published: 2020
Given the large social impacts that COVID-19 is currently having on individuals throughout the world, a large amount of social and behavioural research is underway to measure and track those effects. Indeed, there has already been an explosion of new research and data collection. Any kind of social…
Inclusion in early childhood education and care: A literature review of best practice
Author/editor: Bray, R J
Year published: 2020
This review was undertaken to identify from a literature review elements of best practice for inclusion in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Australia. While…
Initial impacts of COVID-19 on mental health in Australia
Author/editor: Edwards, B, Biddle, N, Gray, M & Sollis, K
Year published: 2020
This paper presents data on the initial impacts of COVID-19 on psychological distress among the Australian population and compares these data to a nationally representative sample in the United States. The Australian survey is based on interviews with 3,155 Australians over the period 14-27 April…
Measuring the economic impact of early bushfire detection
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Bryant, C, Gray, M & Marasinghe, D
Year published: 2020
The fires that occurred over the 2019/20 Australian summer were unprecedented in scale and had a devastating impact on large parts of Australia. In this paper, we estimate the economic costs of bushfires between 2020 and 2049 and the potential reduction in these costs from investments in early fire…
Mental health and relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Edwards, B, Gray, M & Sollis, K
Year published: 2020
The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between mental health outcomes and relationship quality during the COVID-19 period. We find that after a significant worsening in mental health outcomes between February 2017 and April 2020, there was strong evidence for improvements between…