Collected Item: “Ballarat 9 26 June 2020 - Don't Necessarily Travel to the Regions!”
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Ballarat 9 26 June 2020 - Don't Necessarily Travel to the Regions!
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This object consists of two letters published in the Melbourne Age on 26 June 2020 in response to a prominent travel writer's call for the urban traveller to visit regional Australia given the ban on international visits. I wrote the second of the letters.
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I found the original article by Ben Groundwater extremely irritating and opposed to the balance of medical and state opinion. Just because the middle class are denied the opportunity currently to travel overseas does not mean they should be pounding off to regional centres which have largely been exempt from COVID-19.
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Newspaper, Vindicated, Spike, Regions.
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Two letters published in the metropolitan press, one of which is mine.
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2020-06-26