T
HE INDIAN OCEAN’S most exquisite building must be the Old Friday Mosque in Malé, the capital of the Maldives. It was built in the 17th century from interlocking coral blocks. Inside, the carved-wood panelling and lacquerwork represent ravishing embellishments by master craftsmen who happily borrowed from Arabia, Persia and South Asia to make an art that was their own. Maldivians today are proud of their history as a maritime crossroads of culture and commerce. They say it informs their tiny atoll nation’s open-mindedness. So the recent smashing of some of the ornate tombs outside the mosque carried an ominous note as if some people want to shatter the tolerance for which the Maldives is known and replace it with something more puritanical and austere.
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Nurse vaccinates 1 person in 8 hours A Victorian nurse has unloaded about the rate of vaccinations in Australia after she vaccinated just one person in eight hours.
Health by Rhiannon Tuffield 19th May 2021 6:03 PM | Updated: 6:03 PM A Victorian nurse who administered only one COVID vaccine during an eight-hour shift has aired her dismay as concern mounts around the public s uptake of the jab. The nurse, who works at a mass vaccination hub in the state, was left fuming after only being able to give one person the jab during a shift. She said there had been no issues with supply, but people were just not walking through the doors to get the vaccine.