Tag: MELBOURNE

Australia Signs MOU With State for Quarantine Facility

The Australian Commonwealth government and the Victorian state government have reached an agreement on a stand-alone quarantine facility, with the site yet to be confirmed. Victoria’s stand-alone virus quarantine facility will go ahead although the state and federal governments are yet to agree on where it will be built. Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters…


Restrictions Return in Victoria Australia as Outbreak Of COVID-19 Grows

Masks must be worn indoors and restrictions are back after Victoria recorded another five cases of COVID-19 in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. Acting Premier James Merlino announced that from 6 p.m. on Tuesday, home gatherings will be limited to five visitors per day, while public gatherings will be restricted to 30 people. Masks will again become…


Victoria Faces Restrictions as COVID-19 Outbreak Grows

Masks must be worn indoors and restrictions are back after Victoria recorded another five cases of COVID-19 in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. Acting Premier James Merlino announced that from 6 p.m. on Tuesday, home gatherings will be limited to five visitors per day, while public gatherings will be restricted to 30 people. Masks will again become…


MCG Could Host ‘World’s Biggest Crowd’ Since Pandemic Began

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) looks set to host the world’s biggest sports crowd since the start of the pandemic, with up to 75,000 footy fans allowed into the stadium from this Thursday. The move comes just hours after the Australian Football League (AFL) conceded that crowd numbers for round two between Carlton and Collingwood…


Two Melbourne Men Face Terrorism Charges, Including for Links to ISIS

Two young Melbourne men suspected of having extremist motivations are facing terrorism charges. The 19-year-old and 20-year-old Epping men were arrested along with a 16-year-old Pascoe Vale boy following counter-terrorism raids in Melbourne’s north on Wednesday. The 19-year-old will appear before Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with an attempted terrorist act, intentionally causing injury, an…


World-First Therapy Could Restore Hearing Loss for Millions

Melbourne, Australia—Australian scientists are working on a new treatment that could potentially restore hearing for the millions of Australians who lose it within their lifetime. Although one in six Australians experience hearing loss, there is no drug treatment currently available. This figure will is predicted to rise to one in four by 2050, with the…


Australian Academic Says Women Are Afraid of Being Labelled Transphobic for Standing up for Themselves

A Melbourne academic believes women are not standing up for their rights to have female-only spaces—like single-gender changing rooms—because they will be targeted as transphobic. Alongside this, she believes that the increasing encroachment of so-called gender-neutral language, such as “chest-feeding” and “gestational carrier,” is impacting the rights of women; who are allowing it for the sake…


Billionaire Businessmen Offer to Build Quarantine Camps in Australia

Two Australian states with the support of two of the country’s wealthiest men are pushing for purpose-built CCP virus quarantine facilities to be developed outside of Queensland’s and Victoria’s capital cities. The move comes amid a push by the Labor states for the federal government to take over the quarantine system after the Queensland government called…


Billionaire Businessmen Offer to Build Quarantine Facilities in Australia

Two Australian states with the support of two of the country’s wealthiest men are pushing for purpose-built CCP virus quarantine facilities to be developed outside of Queensland’s and Victoria’s capital cities. The move comes amid a push by the Labor states for the federal government to take over the quarantine system after the Queensland government called…


Snap 5-Day Victoria Lockdown Bleeding Businesses Dry

Victorian businesses are reeling from the state’s third COVID-19 lockdown in less than 12 months, with one Melbourne restaurant owner left $35,000 out of pocket. The coffers of Toorak’s Bistro Thierry have been bled dry as the French eatery remains closed because of the state’s five-day “circuit breaker.” Owner Thierry Cornevin says the two previous shutdowns cost…