Coronavirus – The Citizen

In Shepparton, a model for doing business in dangerous times

Words by Angus Thomson

Refugee Communities Association of Australia (RCAA)

‘Survivors’: How Melbourne’s refugees mobilised to stop the second wave

Video report by Anthea van den Bergh

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Students exposed to risk of fraud and grooming while learning online

Story by Petra Stock

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In a year of living hygienically, the health case for some good clean dirt

Words by Alyssa Herr

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Pandemic fuels a virulent new strain of racist attacks in online gaming

Words by Wing Kuang

In dark times, urban birding gave many locked-down spirits wings

Video report by Zoe Stinson

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Want to bet on it? Bookies cleaning up big wins from lockdown gambling

Words by Dane Heverin

Healthy body, unhealthy mind: When the exercise high is just another low

Video report by Fia Walsh

Aboriginal health services “really got this pandemic by the horns”

Words by Amalyah Hart

Photo: Keyu Guo

Step inside the locked-down lives of Melbourne’s international students

Photography by Jirong Xu Jiayi Meng Ruoyu Zhou Pan Li Jingyi Lai Yongrong Li Jiadong Wu Keyu Guo

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Lockdown lust: How coronavirus is changing sex lives and sex drives

Words by Connor Webster

Zoom and gloom: The loneliness of the long distance funeral

Words by Anthony Marsico

From the pandemic front line, a plea for help engineers a safety bubble

Words by Else Kennedy

Lort Smith manager Serena Horgwith Parker Pretzel. Photo: Suzanne Plazzer Kundevska.

Fears pet profiteers are cashing in on the locked-down and lonesome

Words by Jessica Greenan

Photo: Will Povey

Waiting on tables? Some cafes are in no hurry to resume normal service

Words and pictures by Will C. Povey

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Inside COVID-19 HQ: Late nights, lists of questions and old-school sleuthing

Words by Benjamin Silvester

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