As Victoria reopens to more than 100 international travellers today,
The Agereports that some hotel quarantine staff employed by Healthcare Australia are still working at more than one site across Melbourne, contravening a key recommendation from the state’s hotel quarantine inquiry.
Emails obtained by
The Age dated April 1 show Healthcare Australia told select staff their second jobs were a breach of their employment conditions “and subsequently a breach of the contract between HCA and [COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria]”.
In other local news,
Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt announced they would pressure the European Commission over 3.1 million undelivered AstraZeneca doses, although as
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel; Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster (208 pages, $25)
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âIt was her idea to tie up the nun.â
The girl who has the idea, 15-year-old Talia, is intent on escaping from a remote reform school in the mountains of Colombia. Infinite Country is all about making escapes from one place to another, and about what is left behind.
Engel has written often about immigrant experiences in the U.S., in her first book, the story collection Vida, and in her fine novel The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Born to Colombian parents, Engel grew up in New Jersey, earned an MFA at Florida International University and teaches creative writing at the University of Miami.
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel; Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster (208 pages, $25)
âââ
âIt was her idea to tie up the nun.â
The girl who has the idea, 15-year-old Talia, is intent on escaping from a remote reform school in the mountains of Colombia. Infinite Country is all about making escapes from one place to another, and about what is left behind.
Engel has written often about immigrant experiences in the U.S., in her first book, the story collection Vida, and in her fine novel The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Born to Colombian parents, Engel grew up in New Jersey, earned an MFA at Florida International University and teaches creative writing at the University of Miami.
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