Melbourne Finally Shakes Off Its Covid Shackles
People gather net to the Sky Castle, an interactive installation by designers Eness, at Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia last year.
Photographer: Carla Gottgens/BloombergG’day from Sydney. In this week’s dispatch, we celebrate Victoria exiting its world-record lockdown, and check out the will-they-won’t-they around one of Australia’s biggest new floats in years.
We’ve all been living under our respective rocks here in Australia, but most of us have become familiar with at least one piece of trivia this year: Since the pandemic began, Melbourne has earned the dubious distinction of most-locked-down city in the world.