Seventy-two tennis players who flew to Melbourne frustrated they are unable to leave their hotel rooms to train. Follow latest updates live
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This is an interesting piece about people of colour moving to regional areas during the pandemic:
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The Australian Open starts next month, and there’s already a fair bit of concern about how many players and officials travelling to Melbourne have tested positive to Covid-19. But Victorian opposition MP Tim Smith, attempting an overhead smash against the Andrews government, has only found the net. He called Stan Wawrinka, a much-loved player who posted a tweet about happily adhering to quarantine restrictions, a “flog”.
For every Victorian currently in Sydney that is banned from returning home by Daniel Andrews, this obscene double standard, where this flog of a tennis player is allowed in, and our own people aren’t, must make so many Victorian families incandescent… https://t.co/rNdGhi3mVb
Continue reading…Seventy-two tennis players who flew to Melbourne frustrated they are unable to leave their hotel rooms to train. Follow latest updates liveNSW hotspots; Queensland hotspots; Victoria hotspotsFollow the global coronavirus liveblogHunt reassures Australians over vaccine rollout Chaos hits Australian Open with competitors confined to hotelsAustralia’s year of Covid – from the first case to the first doughnut dayNSW records six new local Covid cases, including worker at hospital 9.18pm GMTThis is an interesting piece about people of colour moving to regional areas during the pandemic: Related: I made a sea change during the pandemic, but I miss the diversity of the city | Elfy Scott 9.08pm GMTThe Australian Open starts next month, and there’s already a fair bit of concern about how many players and officials travelling to Melbourne have tested positive to Covid-19. But Victorian opposition MP Tim Smith, attempting an overhead smash against the Andrews government, has only found the net. He called Stan Wawrinka, a much-loved player who posted a tweet about happily adhering to quarantine restrictions, a “flog”.For every Victorian currently in Sydney that is banned from returning home by Daniel Andrews, this obscene double standard, where this flog of a tennis player is allowed in, and our own people aren’t, must make so many Victorian families incandescent… https://t.co/rNdGhi3mVb Continue reading…