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[Link] Have you asked for an Airbnb refund during COVID? Ross was refused one – and then told to break lockdown
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
So when they booked a night at a Victorian country home for a getaway with friends, the Melbourne-based couple didn't pay too much attention to their Airbnb host's cancellation policy.
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[Link] Terror detectives charge Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Terror detectives have charged a Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives, as police continue to investigate threats against Victorian MPs who supported the state's controversial pandemic legislation.
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[Link] ‘We got it wrong’: SA Health boss concedes failures on border exemptions
Read: 17/11/2021 indaily.com.au
Appearing before state parliament’s budget and finance committee this morning, SA Health CEO Dr Chris McGowan conceded SA Health was not initially prepared for the volume of South Australians wanting to come home.
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[Link] More than 60% of people visiting Melbourne vaccination hub did not have Medicare card
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 60% of people who visited a Melbourne vaccination centre targeting those facing disadvantage did not have a Medicare card, while about 5% were probably homeless, figures show.
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[Link] Police try to identify flare-wielding protesters
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police are trying to identify three people involved in the setting off of flares at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne on Saturday.
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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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[Link] 10,000 tickets confirmed for Melbourne Cup, but only 500 available to the public
Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Organisers have confirmed crowds will be back at the Melbourne Cup for the first time since 2019, with 10,000 allowed at Flemington, including 500 members of the general public.
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[Link] Two week shutdown of construction industry expected following violent Melbourne protests
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Victorian government is expected to forcibly shutdown all construction sites across the state in response to violent protests outside the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union's Melbourne office today.
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[Link] Age photographer pepper-sprayed at anti-lockdown protest
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The conduct of some Victoria Police is being investigated after a newspaper photographer was pepper sprayed and video was published online showing a woman being pushed to the ground and sprayed by an officer at a violent anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne at the weekend.
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[Link] South Australians, including a couple in their 60s, arrested after entering the state without a permit
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Six people, including a couple from Kangaroo Island and another pair who crossed fields to enter the state from Victoria, have been arrested and charged after separate breaches of South Australia's COVID-19 restrictions.
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[Link] Statement of Concern: Police use of projectile weapons
Read: 22/8/2021 melbactivistlegal.org.au
Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) expresses concern regarding use of projectile weapons at Melbourne protest on 21 August 2021.
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[Link] ‘Ridiculous’: Police warn protesters ahead of anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne
Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
Police have warned people attending an anti-lockdown march in Melbourne on Saturday that they will take strong action to deter breaches of lockdown restrictions. Thousands were expected to join the protest, which organisers said would begin at 12pm in the CBD.
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[Link] Police arrest dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Victorian police arrested dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD last night. Officers appeared to outnumber a handful of protesters who came into the city's centre to protest hours after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a seven-day extension to the city's lockdown.
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[Link] Centrelink pauses welfare and childcare debt repayments during lockdowns
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Centrelink will no longer issue or recover welfare and childcare debts during lockdowns, including in parts of New South Wales and Queensland currently under stay-at-home orders.
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[Link] Hundreds protest against Victorian COVID lockdown, leading to clashes with police
Read: 6/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Hundreds of protesters have taken to Melbourne's streets hours after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced a statewide lockdown from 8:00pm on Thursday.
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[Link] Swallow hard reality pill on virus deaths
Read: 5/8/2021 www.afr.com
Each life saved by the Sydney lockdown costs $330 million. It’s an unjustifiable expense that imposes large and disproportionate burdens on small business and the less well off.
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[Link] Sydney's coronavirus outbreak is moving from east to west and starting to look like Melbourne's second wave
Read: 8/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
Authorities are bracing for coronavirus cases to potentially grow in areas of Sydney where it may have an easier time spreading. The race is on to nip increasing numbers of cases in Western Sydney in the bud, with failure to do so likely to prolong this outbreak.
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