Who are you going to be after we get out of lockdown?
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Who are you going to be after we get out of lockdown?

Emerging back into society we’ve been presented with an opportunity few will ever have:we get to completely reinvent ourselves.

  • byAlice Clarke

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Regional travel on hold as cases rise and vaccinations rates lag

Regional travel on hold as cases rise and vaccinations rates lag

As coronavirus cases in the Hunter area outstrip those in some of the city’s hardest-hit hotspots this week,businesses in regional NSW are scrambling to cancel bookings and postpone events after travel was blocked until November 1.

  • byLucy Carroll andMary Ward
When a third of Camilla Portela’s class caught COVID,she became their source of support

When a third of Camilla Portela’s class caught COVID,she became their source of support

Across the education sector,teachers and schools have gone way beyond their immediate duties to help families or students in need during lockdown.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
‘Everyone was smiling under their masks’:Sydney rushes back to the gym

‘Everyone was smiling under their masks’:Sydney rushes back to the gym

For Pete Lennon,freedom feels like a 4am alarm. The Sydney hairdresser was one of the first through the doors of Darlinghurst’s City Gym on Monday morning,fitting in a tough training session before the sun rose.

  • byJenny Noyes
Lockdown boom for online giants as bricks and mortar stores lag

Lockdown boom for online giants as bricks and mortar stores lag

‘Pure play’ online retailers such as Amazon and eBay have been popular with locked-down shoppers in Sydney and Melbourne

  • byMatt Wade
Should I be expected to absorb the extra work of colleagues with kids?

Should I be expected to absorb the extra work of colleagues with kids?

This week,Kirstin Ferguson fields a question from someone who works full-time and is childless,but feels they are being handed extra work from a colleague whose children are learning from home.

  • byDr Kirstin Ferguson
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Cup overflows when all we want are the simple things
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Cup overflows when all we want are the simple things

It’s wonderful that we’ll be able to go to the Melbourne Cup and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl,but I’m longing for the ordinary pleasures of pre-COVID life.

  • byMelissa Coburn
How sex clown Betty Grumble uses her body to heal from sexual assault

How sex clown Betty Grumble uses her body to heal from sexual assault

The sex clown’s daily online aerobics shows were partly a spiritual quest in defiance of a pandemic that has decimated the arts.

  • bySteve Dow
Hypothetical questions reveal dark truths in our pandemic reality
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Hypothetical questions reveal dark truths in our pandemic reality

This past 18 months we’ve all had to ask ourselves the question:what would you give up to save a stranger’s life?

  • byAlice Clarke
Pokies to reopen at 12.01am at some Sydney pubs and clubs

Pokies to reopen at 12.01am at some Sydney pubs and clubs

At the stroke of midnight,vaccinated Sydneysiders will be able to have a beer and play the pokies at some venues.

  • byMichael Koziol
Lockdown snuffed out your love of exercise? Here’s how to get it back

Lockdown snuffed out your love of exercise? Here’s how to get it back

As we emerged from lengthy lockdowns last year,it was all about easing back into fitness physically. This year,the struggle is returning to it mentally.

  • bySam Downing