Snap Decisions: Victoria's Third Lockdown
Thursday, 18 February 2021, 2:38 pm The Queen Victoria Market in Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, is usually a thriving affair. Like any ancient agora, people travel to meet there, purchase fresh produce, and natter. The fruit and vegetable vendors are all colour, a profusion of smells and noise. The meat market heaves with patrons keen to snap up deals; the deli dazzles with kaleidoscopic seduction. The noise, usually towards the latter part of the day, is a din of offers. “One-dollar bag! One-dollar bag!” Over the course of the latest lockdown in Victoria – its third sin...
Source: scoop.co.nz