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Those who protected us deserve greater respect Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 27, 2021 â 12.02am Save Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. CROWDS AND COVID-19 Those who protected us deserve greater respect The consequences of COVID-19 are everywhere, and one most people in the world have faced is lockdown in some form or other. There are a number of sensible crowd restrictions designed to minimise the potential spread of the virus but not all of them are sensible. The Anzac crowd is usually quiet, respectable and well managed, while the football match is quite the opposite, a rowdy football crowd. ....
Letâs focus on keeping local businesses afloat Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss February 14, 2021 â 10.30pm Save Normal text size Credit:Illustration: Michael Leunig To submit a letter to The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. COVID-19 Letâs focus on keeping local businesses afloat I am dismayed to be back in lockdown but given the circumstances and possible consequences â a significant and rapid spread of a highly virulent strain of the virus â I am prepared to do what it takes. It is not helpful for various industry bodies to be quick to tell me what damage this will do to an already battered Victorian economy. What would be helpful is for these organisations to use their considerable communications expertise to tell me what I can do to help local businesses that are hit hard. The government is being ni ....
No need for this juggle We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 9, 2021 10.00pm Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. No need for this juggle The foreshadowed Victorian Electoral Commission’s review of Legislative Assembly seat boundaries (‘‘Libs face election rout’’, The Sunday Age, 3/1) does not need to be a population distribution juggle drawing arbitrary lines on maps, and in turn becoming a puzzle for the state’s main political parties based on a series of demographic variables in the pursuit of the retention of the two-party system. ....
Findings only add to political sledging Findings only add to political sledging December 22, 2020 10.00pm Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. HOTEL QUARANTINE INQUIRY Findings only add to political sledging The ‘‘scathing’’ findings of the Victorian inquiry into hotel quarantine (‘‘Shoddy is as shoddy did, and 801 died’’, 22/12) highlight the use of a privatised and casualised security workforce as a primary failure. Does anyone really believe that Victorian Labor’s opposite number in the Liberals would have made better decisions, or been more likely to accept responsibility for fatal failings in the pandemic response? Does anyone truly believe that an approach which blatantly preferred the economy to humanity would have resulted in fewer deaths? ....