A Labor government would set up a centre for disease control to strengthen Australia's preparedness for future pandemics, party leader Anthony Albanese says. Albanese said lives and the economy depended on Australia getting its response to future pandemics right. "Ask ...

A parliamentary inquiry has heard broad-based support for a national centre for disease control. The federal immigration department and health experts have called on the government to set up a national centre for disease control, modelled on the US organisation ...