CBDs are bouncing back but remote work has shifted spending
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CBDs are bouncing back but remote work has shifted spending

Spending patterns suggest many CBD employees are working from home at least part of the week.

  • byMatt Wade

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Lockdown was simple compared to this endless Russian roulette
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Opinion

Lockdown was simple compared to this endless Russian roulette

Yesterday,for just a fleeting moment,I missed lockdown,a simpler time when there wasn’t the constant need for risk assessments.

  • byMarisa Black
Bookings up for restaurants as Melbourne Money scheme returns

Bookings up for restaurants as Melbourne Money scheme returns

The comeback for the scheme enabling CBD diners to reclaim some of their bill is taking place as the peak Christmas hospitality season nears.

  • byCara Waters
Dance like no-one’s watching? I have better advice
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LGBTQ

Dance like no-one’s watching? I have better advice

Unseat your lingering lockdown torpor - go dancing.

  • byGary Nunn
Sutton joins call for ‘recovery phase’ in national COVID-19 plan

Sutton joins call for ‘recovery phase’ in national COVID-19 plan

Victorian CHO Brett Sutton and health economist Stephen Duckett say the national cabinet’s road map out of the pandemic is missing a phase to address economic and mental health impacts.

  • byAisha Dow
This new normal’s for the birds:I’m missing my lockdown nest
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City life

This new normal’s for the birds:I’m missing my lockdown nest

The sound of koels in Sydney usually heralds springtime. But this year,other noises are reminding us that the calmer,quieter,bittersweet periods of lockdowns are now behind us.

  • byHelen Pitt
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‘Abandoned Soviet hospital’:Pick Sydney’s ugliest car park

‘Abandoned Soviet hospital’:Pick Sydney’s ugliest car park

City of Sydney candidate Lyndon Gannon wants to convert the Goulburn Street Car Park into an arts space. What other car parks need a makeover?

  • byAndrew Taylor
Was relocating a good move? As the city reopens,I’m feeling a bit of FOMO
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Opinion

Was relocating a good move? As the city reopens,I’m feeling a bit of FOMO

Is the countryside all it’s cracked up to be or is it now awash with townies suffering relocation remorse?

  • byKate Halfpenny
Will we all get COVID eventually? Burnet Institute’s Margaret Hellard answers readers’ questions

Will we all get COVID eventually? Burnet Institute’s Margaret Hellard answers readers’ questions

Leading disease modeller Margaret Hellard answers questions from Age readers about what we know and don’t know about the Victorian outbreak,and the future of the pandemic.

  • byAisha Dow
Jobless rate tipped to hit record low as Victorians splash cash

Jobless rate tipped to hit record low as Victorians splash cash

Treasury has given an upbeat forecast for employment in the state,while bank data shows Victorians spent $2 billion shopping,going out and travelling in the week after Melbourne’s COVID lockdown ended.

  • byNoel Towell andDaisy Henry
‘Nail in the coffin’ for COVID:New drugs promise to change way we live with virus

‘Nail in the coffin’ for COVID:New drugs promise to change way we live with virus

If antiviral pills for treating COVID-19 are approved,patients could be given one as soon as they test positive – or even earlier as a preventative measure.

  • byLiam Mannix