Lockdown Down Under
Max describes how Australia has become a nation divided by the pandemic and its effects.
Monday, 1 November 2021
Virginia and Cath Willcock live on opposite sides of Australia. Virginia is chief winemaker at the historic Vasse Felix winery in Margaret River in Western Australia; Cath runs a wine-distribution business, Imbibo, 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away in Melbourne, Victoria. Above they are pictured with partners and children celebrating Easter 2020 together in Margaret River – Virginia extreme left – but their subsequent experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic could not be more different.
‘Here in WA we’ve been effectively living COVID-free for two years’, says...
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