The Library is publishing a range of information related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Materials will be added to this page as they are published—follow the Parliamentary Library on Twitter to be alerted to new materials.

• Telephone voting for coronavirus affected voters at the 2022 federal election (13 May 2022)
• COVID-19: chronology of state and territory announcements on schools and early childhood education in 2020 (1 March 2022)
• Australian Government COVID-19 disaster payments: a quick guide (Updated 21 January 2022)
• COVID-19 Human Biosecurity Emergency—Rapid Antigen Test Determination (17 January 2022)
• COVID-19 Human Biosecurity Emergency Declaration—Omicron Response Measures (2 December 2021)
• Recent and long-term trends in the use of casual employment (24 November 2021)
• COVID-19 vaccines: a quick guide (11 November 2021) 
• COVID-19 resources and updates: a quick guide (25 October 2021)
• Suicide and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic (1 October 2021) WARNING: This report includes information on suicides. For help or information contact beyondblue on 1300 224 636, or Lifeline on 13 11 14.
• Intellectual property agreements and COVID-19–proposals to ensure access to treatments (14 September 2021)
• COVID-19: a chronology of Australian Government announcements (up until 30 June 2020) (23 June 2021)
• COVID-19: Labour market impacts on key demographic groups, industries and regions (23 October 2020)
• COVID-19: a chronology of state and territory government announcements (up until 30 June 2020) (22 October 2020)
• Budget Review: Public health response to COVID-19 (October 2020)
• Budget Review: Federal courts and COVID-19 (October 2020)
• UN call for global ceasefires amidst COVID-19 (30 September 2020)
• The impact of COVID-19 on JobSeeker Payment recipient numbers by electorate (Updated 8 September 2020)
• COVID-19 in South and Southeast Asia: a quick guide (7 September 2020)
• The impact of COVID-19 on Australian higher education and overseas students—what do the numbers say? (12 August 2020)
• COVID-19: Chronology of Australian Government announcements on disability services (4 August 2020)
• COVID-19 and Indigenous Australians: a chronology (30 July 2020)
• Changes to the COVID-19 social security measures: a brief assessment (30 July 2020)
• Temporary migration figures: the quarter before COVID-19 hit (19 June 2020)
• COVID-19 and aged care: a quick guide (16 June 2020)
• COVID-19 in the region: a quick guide (11 June 2020)
• COVID-19 and private health insurance (10 June 2020)
• Australian and international case reporting and select resources on COVID-19: a quick guide (27 May 2020)
• COVID-19 Australian Government roles and responsibilities: an overview (19 May 2020)
• Seeking asylum in the time of coronavirus: COVID-19 pandemic effects on refugees and people seeking asylum (19 May 2020)
• COVID-19: Impacts on casual workers in Australia—a statistical snapshot (8 May 2020)
• The Eden-Monaro by-election and COVID-19 (1 May 2020)
• COVID-19 Major partnership with private hospitals (28 April 2020)
• COVID-19 Economic response—delegation by the Director of Human Biosecurity (14 April 2020)
• COVID-19 Economic response—temporary relief for financially distressed businesses (9 April 2020)
• COVID-19 Economic response—temporary relief for financially distressed individuals (9 April 2020)
• COVID-19 Legislative response—Human Biosecurity Emergency Declaration—Essential Goods (8 April 2020)
• COVID-19 Legislative response—Human Biosecurity Emergency Declaration—Remote Communities (7 April 2020)
• COVID-19 Economic response—free child care (5 April 2020)
• COVID-19 Economic response—wage subsidies aim to put workplaces into hibernation (5 April 2020)
• COVID-19 and parliamentary sittings (2 April 2020)
• COVID-19 Economic response—social security measures part 2: $750 lump sum payments (23 & 24 March 2020)
• COVID-19 Economic response—social security measures part 1: temporary supplement and improved access to income support (23 & 24 March 2020)
• COVID-19 Legislative response—Human Biosecurity Emergency Declaration explainer (18 March 2020)

Also relevant is New Zealanders in Australia: a quick guide, and Temorary visa holders and social security: a quick guide.

Australian policy and administrative arrangements for managing disasters and pandemics

The following quick guides set out the policy and administrative arrangements relating to national emergencies, pandemics, and COVID-19 specifically.

• National emergency and disaster response arrangements in Australia: a quick guide (28 April 2020)
• Australian pandemic response planning: a quick guide (28 April 2020)
• Australian COVID-19 response management arrangements: a quick guide (28 April 2020)

Books and articles

You can search the Library’s catalogue for COVID-19 related material (pre-set search). Note that Library books are only available for loan by senators and members and parliamentary staff.

Parliamentary committees in Australia and New Zealand

• Australian Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Australia’s foreign affairs defence and trade
• Australian Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
• Parliament of South Australia Select COVID-19 Response Committee
• Parliament of NSW Public Accountability Committee reference to the NSW Government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Parliament of Queensland Inquiry into the Queensland Government’s health response to COVID-19
• ACT Select Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic response
• New Zealand Parliament Epidemic Response Committee

Parliamentary sources of research on COVID-19

• Inter-Parliamentary Union. See particularly:
  • the resources under ‘Parliaments in a time of pandemic’
  • country compilation of parliamentary responses to the pandemic
• UK House of Commons coronavirus webpage
• UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology COVID-19 analysis
• European Parliamentary Research Service (search results for COVID-19)
• US Congressional Research Service research on COVID-19 topics
  • Library of Congress Law Blog has published a comprehensive report on measures to continue legislative activities and measures taken in South Africa to mitigate the spread of COVID-19
• Canadian Library of Parliament research on COVID-19. See also the HillNotes blog.
• Parliamentary Library & Information Service of Victoria: 
  • Epidemics and pandemics in Victoria: Historical perspectives
  • Emergency Powers, Public Health and COVID-19

See also—readers may also find information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to be useful:

• ABS: Measuring the impacts of COVID-19, Latest data and analysis for Australia