On this special Democracy Sausage we launch a new book on governance systems in China, Taiwan and Australia with its co-editor Andrew Podger and ANU Chancellor Julie Bishop, and discuss how COVID-19 is affecting Australia’s elderly.

On this episode, we hear from leading Indonesia experts about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on jobs, particularly on vulnerable workers in the country’s massive informal sector.

In the wake of COVID-19, domestic and transnational organised crime is becoming a greater challenge for Pacific governments, writes Jose Sousa-Santos

With citizens accessing the Internet in droves in the COVID-19 crisis, governments and corporations are taking advantage of the ‘new normal’ to ramp up their surveillance of public behaviour, Varya Srivastava writes.

Mark Kenny talks with Annika Smethurst about the police raid that changed her life and her new essay, On Secrets.

The idea of techno-orientalism can help the public and policymakers understand the nuances of WeChat and the debate surrounding it in Australia, Fan Yang writes.