With around 100 schools closed because of students or teachers with COVID-19, Australia has lessons for other countries aiming to reopen.
Author: BESHA RODELL
Melbourne Lockdown Elicits Hope, Anger and Vows of Resilience
Readers respond to the situation in Australia.
Dispatch from a Locked-Down Melbourne
The mood in Melbourne among family and friends and strangers on the internet is defeated and dark.
Australia Faces its Own Reckoning Over Diversity in Media
The Black Lives Matter movement has inspired Australians to examine issues of race in our own country.
A Return to Dining and Restaurants in Australia
I have always loved restaurants, but the last few months have shown me how much they act as a respite from the grind of daily life.
The Return to School
What Australian children have to say about going back to class
The Man Who Taught Australia How to Mix a Proper Drink
Vernon Chalker helped to turn what was once considered a menial job, bartending, into a celebrated career.
Watching America in Horror From a Curve-Flattened Australia
There’s an extreme emotional dissonance in feelings of gratitude for Australia’s relative safety, when so many people I know and love are in the United States where things seem out of control.
Remembering Tim Brooke-Taylor and ‘The Goodies’
The new coronavirus is claiming so many cultural heroes. This week, the death that hurt the most was the British comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor
Remote Learning is Nothing New to Outback Families
Very few people know so much about educating children remotely — but my Aunt Pat is an exception. She raised eight kids on a cattle station in Australia’s remote Northern Territory.