Thursday: The capital of Victoria closes again, and this time the optimism is gone. In addition, child care providers have said they would possibly have to reimburse the custodian of the job
by Richard Parkin
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Melbourne reset the Covid-19 lock when third-tier home restrictions came into effect from midnight. Daniel Andrews has re-imposed a curfew after a record 191 new known instances on Tuesday, banning, at this level, scheduled for six weeks in Greater Melbourne and Mitchell County. However, already in Lockdown 2.0, optimism has disappeared and an evil has replaced it, says Calla Wahlquist, while Greg Jericho notes that a relapse in the blockade poses serious repercussions on Australia’s hopes of restricting the recession. Meanwhile, the Chinese company that produced Andrew Forrest’s 10 million check kits faces ongoing scrutiny from human rights defenders due to considerations that the Beijing Institute of Genomics can use the task to create genetic databases.
The rate of new international infections doubled from April to May, and the World Health Organization reported that the instances increased to 200,000 every 24 hours. Johns Hopkins University tracker reported that the United States has surpassed 3 million cases shown, more than a quarter of all internationally known infections, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, a fitness expert, says the country is “always kneeling in the first wave” that has killed more than 130,000. One hundred thousand new international infections have occurred in the United States, Brazil and India.
Hong Kong has lost its loose and open Internet, with the advent of China’s Great Firewall, a vast device that regulates the network. Residents rushed to remove their virtual footprints after further vigorous measures against sedition in the territory. The new legislation has empowered the police to censor online discourse and require Internet service providers to transmit user data and delete it to platforms such as foreign news sites, Google, Facebook and Twitter. China’s tighter control over the territory can see Hong Kong’s prestige as a weakened monetary center, analysts and investors warn.
Hundreds of child care providers across Australia have been told that they may be forced to return homework to task managers, despite the government’s loose formula that automatically qualifies them for the wage subsidy.
An open letter written through ABC suggested that the station’s superior control be ensured that diversity is “not just a cliché” as considerations grow that content creators in non-English-speaking environments can be disproportionately included in long-term layoffs.
Malka Leifer’s lawyers have appealed an Israeli court’s ruling that she has mental compatibility to stand trial. The former director of the Australian school is wanted by more than 74 counts of students who abuse sexually.
Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of homophobic language to mock the masks dressed, less than a day after the 65-year-old Brazilian president announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus.
Two men in France were charged with attempted murder following an attack on a bus driving force that refused access to an organization of others who were not dressed in face masks. The 59-year-old left a brain dead.
Courts in Pakistan have halted construction on Islamabad’s first Hindu temple. The prime minister, Imran Khan, has backed the nation’s Hindu minority having its own place for worship but petitions from Islamic opponents have delayed progress.
JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie have signed an open letter from more than 150 writers, artists and the caution of “censorship” and “a fashion for public misfortune and ostracism.”
The “brutal blockade” of nine public housing complexes in Melbourne drew national attention to a network few Australians knew. The towers that dominate Melbourne’s inner suburbs don’t have a smart reputation. Media reports on drug use, vandalism and violence in their public spaces, of citizens living in fear, generate safe stereotypes. But those who live there have another story to tell, as we heard in the first of a six-part series on resilient communities.
Almost as soon as the blockade began, many of us were already obsessed with when it would end. “When we retreated to our homes and far from almost everyone we knew, I dreamed of some kind of Bacchanal birthday party on August 15, 1945 once we had been through this and it was a terrifying era,” writes Josephine Tovey. But as a wave of new instances leads Melbourne to a lockout, the circular moment of isolation, stripped of that worry and early adrenaline rush, may seem more like hard work.
Set amid a brilliant escape from the magazine world, The Bold Type is a front for a serious exploration of the most youthful femininity of the millennium. But for Australian actor Aisha Dee, playing a complex and messy character, who is allowed to take false steps and act suddenly, is a long way from her Australian saddle club debut, writes Neha Kale.
The conviction of one of the Philippines’ best-known hounds for “cyberlibel” has been condemned through human rights groups. In this episode of Full Story, journalist Carmela Fonbuena in Manila describes the chilling effect of the verdict on press freedom.
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The numbers are there for last year’s Women’s World Cup, and they’re incredibly positive. For every euro spent at the festival in France, the country raised up to 20. This is good news for upcoming hosts, Australia and New Zealand, and as Samantha Lewis writes: “These figures carry more weight on the argument that women football is a serious economic and cultural product.”
With Queensland 11, 14 and 15 groups in the 16-team NRL, it can mean a bad year for the Maroons. While Sunshine State welcomes the AFL, QRL officials can be expected to panic, especially with a time when the Brisbane team is still scheduled for 2022, writes Larissa O’Connor.
The $70 billion task control program wants to be extended, Financial Review writes, as the federal government submits a series of proposals to counter the pullback of Victoria’s closure. Pullin, the wife of Olympic snowboarder Alex “Chumpy”, learned of his death at the site of his underwater hunting accident, according to the Courier-Mail. And a former money planner who lost $8 million of other people’s cash detailed the VIP remedy that online gambling corporations presented to him on a four-year gaming trip, the CBA reports.
Scott Morrison and Shinzo Abe of Japan will now hold virtual talks and are expected to do so on security issues such as emerging tensions with China.
A Ruling by the Federal Court is expected in a dispute between Qantas and the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association over Covid-19’s resignation of engineers.
Tired of waiting for the world’s governments to take meaningful action opposed to climate change? Well, now there’s a DIY option: spreading rock dust. The procedure known as “improved rock aging,” used by thousands of farmers around the world, can absorb billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the sky year.
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