Two months into the Melbourne lockdown, Erin Lyall stopped being able to get out of bed. She used to wake at 7am and work out in her home gym. But as September rolled…
N ine months in limbo hasn’t given Melbourne the tools to plan for a new future. We don’t know what our “Covid-normal” lives will look like. How can we make plans with…
Katharine Murphy speaks to the shadow early childhood education minister, Amanda Rishworth, about Labor’s new promise to overhaul the childcare subsidy system. How would the proposed reform change productivity in the workforce? And…
What do arts and culture mean to Australia – and to our economy?
It’s an awkward way to ask about the meaning of life. It’s also the question at the heart of a…
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A woman wears a face mask as she waits for a bus last month in South Wales. Wales is imposing a lockdown amid a surge in cases. Ben Birchall/AP
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Fiona Crump, owner of the Castle Beach Cafe in Falmouth, says she will be making free lunch bags during half-term for any child who normally gets a free school lunch
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Convalescent plasma derived from recovered patients provided no benefit over usual care in 464 COVID-19 adult patients in India, according to the results of the first randomized, controlled trial to test the safety…