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Social bubble, exercise | Photo by Shaojie on Unsplash

How long will I have to wear a mask? Can single...

By Liam Petterson, The Conversation and Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation The Victorian government’s roadmap out of pandemic lockdowns includes new provisions for single people living...
News
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minutes
COVID-19 test | Image from Shutterstock

Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs

By Craig Lockwood and Lucy Crawford Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story — health-care workers fully...
COVID-19
4
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Melbourne lockdown | Photo by SGC on Unsplash

The modelling behind Melbourne’s extended city-wide lockdown is problematic

By Joshua Gans, University of Toronto I totally support the goal of eliminating the coronavirus from Victoria and at the same time hopefully eliminating it...
COVID-19
7
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Vegan mushrooms as leather | Shutterstock

Vegan leather made from mushrooms could mould the future of sustainable...

By Mitchell P. Jones, Vienna University of Technology Seven millennia since its invention, leather remains one of the most durable and versatile natural materials. However,...
Science + Technology
4
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Melbourne at night

Victoria now has a good roadmap out of COVID-19 restrictions. New...

By Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute The COVID-19 roadmap for Victoria announced by Premier Daniel Andrews sets the state on the right path. Something like it...
COVID-19
4
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A department store employee wheels clothes across Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall on August 5 2020, as retailers prepared to close their doors to customers. Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AP

Trouble at the mall as landlords and tenants ponder mutually assured...

By Matthew Bailey, Macquarie University “This is not a bluff,” Scott Evans, the chief executive of Mosaic Brands, has said of his threat to permanently...
Business + Economy
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