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First it was cancelled, then it rebooted as Moomba 2.0, now the annual festival has been reimagined as a celebration of love for Melbourne.
Floral love heart displays will adorn the city in March for Moomba 2.0, a scaled-down festival to accommodate COVID-19 restrictions.
The rebooted Moomba Festival is celebrating love for Melbourne.
An installation depicting a gigantic beating heart will light up the skyline along the banks of the Yarra on the Upper Terrace of Birrarung Marr.
Melbourne lord mayor Sally Capp has encouraged all Melburnians to come and show their love for the city.
“The floral heart displays will help to capture the community spirit that’s at the heart of the Moomba Festival,” she said.
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January 16, 2021 10.00pm
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Australia’s own scandal along these lines was perpetrated by the Morrison government (the so-called robo-debt scheme) – a scheme to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars from tens of thousands of impoverished Australian citizens.
After refuting the obvious for years, a full-scale investigation showed that robo-debt was a farce that devastated the lives of thousands of hapless Australians and the government is now committed to reimbursing those unfortunates hundreds of millions of dollars.