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Australia’s delivery deaths: the riders who never made it and the families left behind – The Guardian
Three food delivery riders recently died on the job, and their families are left with uncertain futures, and many questions
Chow Khai Shien died three days before the Melbourne lockdown lifted, holding someone elses food.
He had been in Australia for five years, having arrived from Malaysia at the age of 31. First he was a student, then a chef, working part-time in a restaurant inside a casino. When the pandemic descended, like many other people around the world, he turned to food delivery ferrying burgers and chips, burritos, and pizzas, across the city on a small motorised scooter. The car hit him on the corner of…
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