How many deaths are we prepared to risk?
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May 6, 2021 12.02am
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INDIA TRAVEL BAN
How many deaths are we prepared to risk?
The travel ban is in place while COVID-19 is running rampant in India and while we do not have sufficient quarantine facilities in Australia. Our hotel quarantine barely copes with the current level of arrivals. We still see COVID-positive cases among the arrivals, even from countries with low rates of infection. We also see cases where COVID-19 is transmitted to quarantine workers. The real question is: How many collateral infections and deaths in Australia are acceptable if we allow travellers from India into this country?
The best Australian cooking classes, gin tutorials and cheese-making courses worth travelling for
Dani Valent
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Online cooking experiences are great – no one can see you lick the spoon – but there s nothing like a real-life class.
Chef, writer, TV personality and teacher Matthew Evans has a theory. People take away one key learning from any cooking class they do. But one new thing can be enough to revolutionise how you cook, he says. Which is why cooking classes are one of the most effective ways to up your skills in the kitchen.
Online cooking classes have boomed over the past turbulent year. But there s nothing like a real-life class. There s the expert tuition in 3D, instant, individual advice that leads to aha moments, and the enveloping aromas that the internet still hasn t worked out how to transmit.
This is an opportunity to show what we stand for
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THE WINTER OLYMPICS
This is an opportunity to show what we stand for
Your measured editorial (″China can’t avoid the Olympics torchlight″, 19/4) raised some pivotal points regarding how a nation such as Australia – with its ingrained social values of the dignity of the individual, freedom of speech, the rule of law and open government – might possibly participate in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.