Tag: melbourne
Victoria’s 5-day lockdown may not quash Delta. Here’s what our modelling predicts instead
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Victoria has entered a five-day lockdown to control its growing outbreak of the more infectious Delta variant.
Until midnight on Tuesday restrictions mean residents are only allowed...
Smart street furniture in Australia: a public service or surveillance and advertising tool?
A smart light pole in the UK can also recognise faces and numberplates and detect speeding. Nazlika/Wikimedia Common
Smart street furniture – powered and digitally...
Why do our COVID outbreaks always seem to happen in Melbourne? Randomness and bad luck
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A man from Wollert, a suburb in Melbourne’s north, breezed into Melbourne from South Australian hotel quarantine, stopped at a 7-11,...
Yes, another lockdown in Victoria hurts. But it might be our only way to avert a third wave
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Victoria went into stage 4 lockdown from 11.59pm Friday, as the cluster from the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel continues to grow.
Premier Daniel...
The NSW-Vic border will reopen this month, and ironically the risk is greatest for Victoria
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New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian today announced the border with Victoria will reopen on November 23.
It will be the first time...
Sunday essay: Alice Pung — how reading changed my life
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Having survived starvation and been spared execution, my father arrived in this new country, vassal-eyed and sunken-cheeked. I was born less than...