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Masks to stay for some primary school children.

Right call to keep masks for primary school children

If masks help kids get back quicker to the kind of lives that were put on pause in 2020, I think they’re worth keeping.

  • Michael Lucy

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Another negative RAT test.

Waiting for COVID: One family’s symptomatic odyssey

Symptoms can be devilishly deceptive. A cold, it seems, can still be just a cold gifting you all the drama of illness, but none of those sweet, sweet antibodies.

  • Rachael Mogan McIntosh
The queue for PCR tests at Roselands Shopping Centre open-air car park this week.

I work at a COVID testing lab. Please think before joining that PCR traffic jam

Joining those hours-long testing queues when you are not a priority is making our hard job harder.

  • Anonymous
Buyout funds have been seeking out information on the privately owned 50-year old electrical and mechanical engineering and services company.

How to greet our loved ones: Deciphering the new COV-etiquette

Passing the soy sauce bottle at dinner was the most touchy-feely we got in my family.

  • Kelly Eng
David Elzig and Madison Beaird on adventure in WA during the pandemic.

‘Joyful but sceptical’: Meet two US expats who are no longer trapped by WA’s hard border

Two former American baseball players may have had picture perfect postcards to send home since arriving in WA, but they’re looking forward to sharing the experience firsthand with their families now the border is reopening.

  • Sarah Brookes
Andrew Thomas and his 10yo daughter Tamasin are one of the last families to get out of quarantine after returning from the UK.

As one of the last people in Sydney hotel quarantine, I hope it never returns

My daughter and I were en route to Sydney when Dominic Perrottet announced all quarantine would be scrapped from November 1.

  • Andrew Thomas
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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and Treasurer Matt Kean announcing the $250 voucher on Thursday.

This mum can’t vouch for the Premier’s $250 voucher

Why throw money only at the parents of school-aged children? Share the love, Dominic Perrottet.

  • Kerri Sackville
A few lockdowns ago, comedian Jo Stanley decided to become more mindful about her drinking.

Freedom picnics bring with them a curly question for some

It turns out there’s a more awkward question to ask than “are you double vaccinated” this picnic season.

  • Jo Stanley
Our hospital staff are likely to be put under extreme stress as Melbourne opens up.

How picking apart a person’s life can save that of another

A contact tracer needs to be curious, empathetic and prepared to ask the hard questions.

  • Anonymous
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From thrillers to love stories, reading is keeping me sane in lockdown

Free lending libraries are as important as public health, transport and education in a civilised society.

  • Clare Boyd-Macrae

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