  Social media platforms contain abundant data that can provide comprehensive
knowledge of historical and real-time events. During crisis events, the use of
social media peaks, as people discuss what they have seen, heard, or felt.
Previous studies confirm the usefulness of such socially generated discussions
for the public, first responders, and decision-makers to gain a better
understanding of events as they unfold at the ground level. This study performs
an extensive analysis of COVID-19-related Twitter discussions generated in
Australia between January 2020, and October 2022. We explore the Australian
Twitterverse by employing state-of-the-art approaches from both supervised and
unsupervised domains to perform network analysis, topic modeling, sentiment
analysis, and causality analysis. As the presented results provide a
comprehensive understanding of the Australian Twitterverse during the COVID-19
pandemic, this study aims to explore the discussion dynamics to aid the
development of future automated information systems for epidemic/pandemic
management.
