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Rick Morton New research shows coronavirus may have lasting impacts on cognitive ability.

Karen Middleton With many small businesses barely clinging to life, the changes to JobKeeper may just be postponing an inevitable demise.

Rick Morton A third of Covid-19 deaths in Australia so far have occurred in aged-care homes. An investigation finds an underfunded and underprepared sector.

Amy Coopes While debate over masks has divided public and scientific opinion, experts say one thing is clear – other pandemic protocols must also be followed.

Mike Seccombe As coronavirus bites, two-thirds of volunteers have left non-profits and many organisations in the sector face becoming ‘zombie charities’.

Margaret Simons Neville Power is the former mining executive leading the government’s Covid-19 co-ordination commission. Questions have been raised about conflicts of interest, but very little is known about the boy from Bushy Park.

Gina Rushton Women in the workforce will be worse off as the government ends free childcare and JobKeeper support for the sector, with experts warning that some centres will be forced to close.

Kerry Brewster As the Murray–Darling Basin continues to suffer through drought, irrigators in the northern basin are harvesting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of water without needing a licence to do so.

Rick Morton Australia almost beat the first strain of coronavirus. New research shows that later strains, which had spread through Europe and America, slipped out through hotel quarantine.