Right call to keep masks for primary school children
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Right call to keep masks for primary school children

If masks help kids get back quicker to the kind of lives that were put on pause in 2020,I think they’re worth keeping.

  • byMichael Lucy

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Waiting for COVID:One family’s symptomatic odyssey

Waiting for COVID:One family’s symptomatic odyssey

Symptoms can be devilishly deceptive. A cold,it seems,can still be just a cold gifting you all the drama of illness,but none of those sweet,sweet antibodies.

  • byRachael Mogan McIntosh
I work at a COVID testing lab. Please think before joining that PCR traffic jam

I work at a COVID testing lab. Please think before joining that PCR traffic jam

Joining those hours-long testing queues when you are not a priority is making our hard job harder.

  • byAnonymous
How to greet our loved ones:Deciphering the new COV-etiquette
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How to greet our loved ones:Deciphering the new COV-etiquette

Passing the soy sauce bottle at dinner was the most touchy-feely we got in my family.

  • byKelly Eng
‘Joyful but sceptical’:Meet two US expats who are no longer trapped by WA’s hard border

‘Joyful but sceptical’:Meet two US expats who are no longer trapped by WA’s hard border

Two former American baseball players may have had picture perfect postcards to send home since arriving in WA,but they’re looking forward to sharing the experience firsthand with their families now the border is reopening.

  • bySarah Brookes
As one of the last people in Sydney hotel quarantine,I hope it never returns

As one of the last people in Sydney hotel quarantine,I hope it never returns

My daughter and I were en route to Sydney when Dominic Perrottet announced all quarantine would be scrapped from November 1.

  • byAndrew Thomas
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This mum can’t vouch for the Premier’s $250 voucher

This mum can’t vouch for the Premier’s $250 voucher

Why throw money only at the parents of school-aged children? Share the love,Dominic Perrottet.

  • byKerri Sackville
Freedom picnics bring with them a curly question for some

Freedom picnics bring with them a curly question for some

It turns out there’s a more awkward question to ask than “are you double vaccinated” this picnic season.

  • byJo Stanley
How picking apart a person’s life can save that of another
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How picking apart a person’s life can save that of another

A contact tracer needs to be curious,empathetic and prepared to ask the hard questions.

  • byAnonymous
From thrillers to love stories,reading is keeping me sane in lockdown
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From thrillers to love stories,reading is keeping me sane in lockdown

Free lending libraries are as important as public health,transport and education in a civilised society.

  • byClare Boyd-Macrae
When going ‘back to school’ means freedom and friendship
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When going ‘back to school’ means freedom and friendship

It wasn’t until this year when we went into the third,fourth and fifth lockdowns that I realised how much we missed when we were being taught remotely.

  • byAhelee Rahman