Peter Curson

Infectious diseases remain a threat

3 November 2022 10:00 am

Have we learnt anything from our past experience of infectious disease? For well over a century, pandemics and epidemics produced…

Ebola returns to the world stage

17 October 2022 4:00 am

Welcome to yet another move in the game of pandemic chess we continue to find ourselves playing against the microbial…

Infectious disease dominates our roost

10 August 2022 4:00 am

Infectious disease has been a deep-seated and inescapable feature of Australian life since the early days of settlement. Over the…

A pox on the monkeys

23 June 2022 4:00 am

Monkeypox is a rare but potentially dangerous viral disease closely allied to Smallpox, although much less severe. Two major strains…

An infectious history of Australia

21 February 2021 4:28 pm

Epidemics and pandemics of infectious disease have always played an important part in Australia’s history. Even so, until the advent…

The 4th horseman

13 February 2021 9:00 am

Commonwealth-state rivalry is as old as, well, the plague

Panic, parochialism, pissantery and pigheadedness: pandemics in Australian history

3 April 2020 5:00 pm

An incurable disease … highly contagious… those struck down by it shunned by neighbours and friends… its cause unknown ……

Deconstructing Unis

11 October 2014 9:00 am

The dummies’ guide to modern university governance

Just wait ‘til they get their hands on ebola

13 September 2014 9:00 am

The Black Death and other forms of plague are already on Islamic terrorists’ shopping lists

Ebola – the next move?

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Ebola is playing a deadly game on a microbial board