Suburban restaurant Vasko (111-113 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe) offering free delivery

Postponement of Fishcare event to remove introduced carp from local river system

Easter message in letterbox art

Chalked messages and pictures of hope

All the local playgrounds closed at the end of March and now the kids have decorated the Council tape — Rossi Reserve in Ford Street, Ivanhoe.

Advice about walking, and how it is making people feel

Victorian State Government advice about walking

Working from home with a child.

I have the VicEmergency app on my phone to warn for bushfires. Around mid March, I started getting daily warning alerts from the app, initially for contagious disease in my area, and then for pandemic in my area. The alerts usually come between 5-6pm and provide information on the latest public health advice and restrictions. On Friday 27 March the alert from the app was particularly striking. One of the instructions, highlighted in bold, told people "If you can stay home, you must stay home. If you don't, people will die." This felt like very dire warning from what is otherwise rather a dry app with very practical instructions.

Our life at the moment in the home office cum kindergarten. From morning and some semblance of tidiness, to increasing clutter as the day progresses.

A Facebook announcement from ABC Education (Australia) about screening educational content in term two. They will be screening primary school content in the morning and high school content in the afternoon.

Message to passers-by in suburban letterbox: "And as the earth slowed for a moment in time the trees, rivers, animals and even the humans took a deep breath …".

Cafes and restaurants like Cafe Georgia in Ivanhoe now take-away only

Many shops on Upper Heidelberg Road in Ivanhoe now closed for business. There was some controversy when government allowed hairdressing appointments of 30 minutes when other businesses were already being asked to reduce their services and social distancing was already de rigueur.

The things you see out on a neighbourhood walk — kids finding ways to be helpful.

All the local playgrounds closed from today. This one is Rossi Reserve in Ford Street, Ivanhoe.

Neighbourhood in virtual lockdown but some people leaving out excess for others, corner of 14 Waterdale Road and Latham Street.

We are going for a walk every day for exercise, noting as the days go by new signs and information about social distancing. These signs were not there yesterday, and the teenagers playing basketball at the hoop and the kids playing on the playground have now disappeared. Just groups of two, or families with a few more, walking slightly furtively past one another. And many more bicyclists whizzing past on the shared paths — have already seen a bingle or two.

Melbourne Fringe Festival revised dates now 12-29 November 2020

Staff are encouraged to work from home and are scrambling to get what they need to do that - for some unknown period of time. This woman has gathered her work needs and is sitting on her office chair waiting for transport to take it all home.

Public health warning signs about social distancing in Bank of Melbourne window, 162 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe, Melbourne.

Shot from intersection of Seddon Street and Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe take 6:30pm Monday when street would normally be packed with peak hour traffic.

Supplier to hospitality industry turns to home delivery to save fresh produce small business

‘Stay safe from Coronavirus’ sign from Bayside council.

Fourth artwork in a series inspired by the coronavirus pandemic, which coincided with my being diagnosed with a prostate lump. So, the foibles of biology.

Third artwork in a series inspired by the coronavirus pandemic, which coincided with my being diagnosed with a prostate lump. So, the foibles of biology.

Second artwork in a series inspired by the coronavirus pandemic, which coincided with my being diagnosed with a prostate lump. So, the foibles of biology.

First artwork in a series inspired by the coronavirus pandemic, which coincided with my being diagnosed with a prostate lump. So, the foibles of biology.

These posters went up around our neighbourhood within a day of the government order that limited all restaurants and cafes to take away service only. The same message was also printed as a paper slip and placed under car windscreen wipers. The business behind the signs is Lux Foundry cafe, located on my street in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia. The sign pleads with people in the neighbourhood to keep patronising the cafe, so the cafe can continue employing its staff: "We will never abandon our team. We will never abandon you. Please don't abandon us". This poster is a poignant illustration of the economic crisis that was unleashed immediately by the COVID control interventions.

A sign in a bottleshop, Liquorland, advising customers that vodka doesn’t work as a hand sanitiser. Shows the scarcity of hand sanitiser at this time!

The pandemic is restricting all kinds of gathering, including religious events.

Without even mentioning the pandemic, the sign offer hope that at some point in the future it will reopen

The sign announces restrictions about service of food to minimize the spread of the virus

Cafes and restaurants were restricted by law to serve meals except as a take away

Residents of Melbourne's wealthy suburbs at the centre of coronavirus spread as they return from Aspen ski season.

Walking by oneself in the dawn light I cannot but wish we too could fly away from the surreal nature of this virus. A tiny speck of life, unable to be seen, has felled the economies of the world and the hubris of mankind in the space of 3 short months. My life continues pretty much as usual except only at home whilst food lasts. All my family continue to be employed - we are one of the lucky ones. I wonder if and when guilt will set in?

Headline: "Beaches closed after crowds defy social distancing rules"

Meme: 2 panels from Scooby doo showing character Fred revealing, in the manner of the usual episodic conclusion, that COVID-19 is a conspiracy from the online streaming service Zoom. Zoom, is widely used in an educational setting to stream classes and meetings online, particularly popular as people are made to self-isolate at home.

Instead of organised rides in groups and having lunch etc at a cafe, most road cyclists are riding alone. This photo shows a lunch of muesli bars etc on a solo ride. Not shown is the hand sanitiser used to disinfect the tap used to fill water bottles.

Our Billy Bragg concert on 7 May 2020 has been confidently rescheduled – to 12 February 2021!

Radio interview by host Jacinta Parsons with Professor Andy May from the University of Melbourne about 'A Journal of the Plague Year' project.

At this moment my partner and I are packing up our lives because of the COVID 19 pandemic. I think if we weren't both students we would feel a bit less anxious, but now with no work and no income to support ourselves, it's time to minimise and Marie Kondo this tiny unit and move an hour and a half away from our lives here in the South-East suburbs. While I am grateful to be moving away from what could become a more dangerous place to live, I'm remorseful and not really ready to leave my first house. It's quaint and while we are staying at home the garden is enclosed and peaceful. Here's hoping the spread will be slow enough so that we can move before we have issues getting food. Hopefully it doesn't get as bad here as it has in other countries.

Taped up seating at the local shopping centre

This meme is a parody of all of the conspiracy theories that have been swirling around the internet.

Alexander describes how his life has changed in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Some of his challenges include teleworking for a new job, watching over his kids now that they can’t go to school, and coping with shortages of necessities and lack of normal entertainment such as sports. He talks about how he thinks it is a good thing that his kids are not at school, as primary schools are known to be germ spreaders. Alexander conveys his hopes that the lockdown will end soon and normal life will be able to continue.

An empty Burke Road, Deepdene, normally teeming with cars.

We were out for a walk and heard a housebound resident in a local apartment banging out on the drums — more people confined to home might suggest taking up a quieter musical instrument! Neighbourly protocols might be tested.

Schools have closed for an interim period (maybe) — the kids down the street send messages of encouragement for all the people in the neighbourhood who are out taking a daily constitutional.

Schools have closed for an interim period (maybe) — the kids down the street have chalked messages of encouragement on the footpath for all the people in the neighbourhood who are out taking a daily constitutional.

A piece of prose that highlights global opinions and assertions that were made in March of 2020. The author notes the state of Australian citizens and how people in general there, and worldwide, are being affected, either in a positive manner, negative manner or somewhere in between those two extremes . (Added by curator)