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Migration and residential mobility researchers are increasingly exploring moves across the entire life course, rather than singular migration events (Coulter 'et al. ' 2016). Depending on the person, residential moves across an entire lifetime can be international as well as local or regional, and so methods that are sensitive to various spatial scales are necessary. This paper provides an overview of a qualitative geographical information systems (GIS) method that is sensitive to changing spatial scales of migration. Combined biographical interviews, mapping and visual methods were used to explore the migration paths of international and domestic migrants to the regional city of Maroochydore, Australia. Participants were asked to outline and describe the places they have lived throughout their life course, while their residential locations were mapped and visually represented using Tour Builder 3D (Tour Builder) and Google Earth satellite imagery. By combining the mapping exercise with a traditional oral interview, additional data were generated as the participants discussed their satisfaction and personal experiences of each location. The multiscalar ability of Tour Builder and Google Earth allowed the participants' migration biographies to be followed virtually as they described their place experiences and perceptions at the local, regional and national levels. This paper is a step towards bridging the gap between international and domestic migration and mobility studies, and presents a creative biographical mapping method with the potential for further mapping applications.

Supporters of short-term rental (STR) platforms state that STRs represent a small fraction of the housing market of major cities, and therefore have little impact on rents. However, there is emerging evidence that suggests that STRs have highly localised impacts. In this article, we use the natural experiment of the pause in tourism caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to highlight the impact of a decrease in STR listings on rental markets in the case study city of Hobart, Australia. We find that rental affordability has improved in Hobart’s STR-dense suburbs with the increased vacancies from the underutilised STR properties. These results provide evidence of the impact of STRs on local housing markets when analysed from a finer scale than the whole of city approach. The focus on local housing markets help local communities and city governments build an argument for the impact of STRs on tight housing markets.

Migration and residential mobility researchers are increasingly exploring moves across the entire life course, rather than singular migration events (Coulter 'et al. ' 2016). Depending on the person, residential moves across an entire lifetime can be international as well as local or regional, and so methods that are sensitive to various spatial scales are necessary. This paper provides an overview of a qualitative geographical information systems (GIS) method that is sensitive to changing spatial scales of migration. Combined biographical interviews, mapping and visual methods were used to explore the migration paths of international and domestic migrants to the regional city of Maroochydore, Australia. Participants were asked to outline and describe the places they have lived throughout their life course, while their residential locations were mapped and visually represented using Tour Builder 3D (Tour Builder) and Google Earth satellite imagery. By combining the mapping exercise with a traditional oral interview, additional data were generated as the participants discussed their satisfaction and personal experiences of each location. The multiscalar ability of Tour Builder and Google Earth allowed the participants' migration biographies to be followed virtually as they described their place experiences and perceptions at the local, regional and national levels. This paper is a step towards bridging the gap between international and domestic migration and mobility studies, and presents a creative biographical mapping method with the potential for further mapping applications.

This research examines discrimination and existing policy, law and practice in Australia’s private rental sector including the impact of informal tenancies and the increasing role of digital technologies.

This study investigated the policy and regulatory settings that shape housing options available to households that own companion animals. It considers housing and housing assistance contexts nationally across tenures, sectors (e.g. ownership, private rental housing), emergency/crisis accommodation and for diverse population groups receiving income and housing assistance support.

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs), with mutations linked to increased transmissibility, vaccine escape and virulence, has necessitated the widespread genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. This has placed a strain on global sequencing capacity, especially in areas lacking the resources for large scale sequencing activities. Here we have developed three separate multiplex high-resolution melting assays to enable the identification of Alpha, Beta, Delta and Omicron VOCs. The assays were evaluated against whole genome sequencing on upper-respiratory swab samples collected during the Alpha, Delta and Omicron [BA.1] waves of the UK pandemic. The sensitivities of the eight individual primer sets were all 100%, and specificity ranged from 94.6 to 100%. The multiplex HRM assays have potential as a tool for high throughput surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 VOCs, particularly in areas with limited genomics facilities.

RT-qPCR is commonly used for virological endpoints during clinical trials for antiviral therapy to determine the quantity and presence of virus in a sample. However, RT-qPCR identifies viral RNA and cannot determine if viable virus is present. Existing culture-based techniques for SARS-CoV-2 are insensitive and not sufficiently standardized to be employed as clinical study endpoints. The use of a culture system to monitor replicating viruses could mitigate the possibility of molecular techniques identifying viral RNA from inactive or lysed viral particles. The methodology optimized in this study for detecting infectious viruses may have application as a secondary virological endpoint in clinical trials of therapeutics for SARS-CoV-2 in addition to numerous research processes.