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Thank you, Queensland, we Victorians owe you one – The Age
On the weekend the AFL grand final was supposed to be played.at the MCG, Jake Niall has a ‘thank you’ message for the sunshine state.
It couldn’t happen in civilised Melbourne, we thought, aghast at Queensland’s authoritarianism. Well, a more severe prohibition on gatherings has happened in our metropolis, for completely different reasons.
In our cosmopolitan capital, Queensland was often the subject of caricature and condescension, even if it was a playground for Melburnians in our frigid winters, a new home for retirees, and Noosa was a kind of winter haven for Melbourne’s moneyed, for those who found the Gold Coast grubby …
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