DESPERATE young Victorians struggling with lockdown are waiting as long as three months for potentially lifesaving appointments at regional mental health services as its revealed another young man has taken his life.
A brazen conman with a dark past who used fake documents to work as a schoolteacher for a decade, now claims he was discriminated against by Victoria’s education watchdog.
Telstra boss Andy Penn wants the telco to be released from its obligation to provide copper landlines to rural and remote parts of Australia but farmers and advocacy groups for the aged have demanded they first “guarantee” no Australian will be disadvantaged.
Scott Morrison has warned state leaders if they refuse to open their borders they will have to cough up millions of dollars to support airlines hit hard by the travel restrictions, while desperate farmers warn the closures are punishing Victorian country communities still hurting from drought.
Farm kids from country towns have been caught in the crossfire and political argy-bargy of COVID-19 border closures and are trapped in boarding schools, cut off from their families and a long way from home.
Video has emerged online of a luxury brand showing designer goods at a champagne party in a posh Melbourne home, with the Premier slamming the blatant breach of lockdown rules, stating “there’s nothing urgent about a luxury handbag”.
This time last year the Kelly family’s Millewa farm was so deep in drought it resembled a desert. Now incredible before and after photos show what a massive difference much needed winter rain had on our country farms.
WWII veterans Ray Rees and Len Clarke stared death in the face on foreign lands as teenagers. Now, they’re keeping each other company in a Melton South aged care facility.
White Island volcano survivor Stephanie Browitt has overcome extreme adversity, having lost her father and sister in the tragedy. Now the Melbourne woman shares the small thing we can all do to help the city get through stage four lockdown.
AFL legend Wayne Schwass has a joined chorus of Melbourne’s most well-known identities in offering some wise words of advice to anyone doing it tough during lockdown. SHARE YOUR MESSAGE OF SUPPORT FOR MELBOURNE.
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