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Motionless Melbourne: Navigating this new city is an inner journey – The Age
Melbourne today has lost all of the buzz typified in its once-teeming cosmopolitan lanes. Even the dynamic Premier looks exasperated and depleted.
Hovering over everyone is the daily morning wait for new infection rates to be released, rates which are unprecedented in Australia and stubbornly refuse to come down. And for a sad, dark backdrop, there are locked-down silos of contagion – housing commission towers – and, across the city, dozens of nursing homes left negligently unprotected from the pandemic, inside which the disease is rampaging out of control and with mounting deadly effect.
The social temperature has plunged, freezing the p…
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