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Staycation here we come! The state government’s Regional Victoria Travel Voucher Scheme has been a huge success with a third round of vouchers going up for grabs at the end of this month. Now, though, it’s M...
Victoria is following South Australia’s lead and banning single-use plastics. By February 2023, Victoria will have phased out and banned a number of single-use plastics from use across the state. The single-use pl...
We’re still waiting to be reinstated. When Facebook pulled the plug on Australia last week, a whole heap of pages got caught in the crossfire and were taken offline. Australians reacted with gifs and memes, and ha...
Australia’s vaccine program begins next week. With the arrival of 142,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in Sydney on Monday and the approval of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine by Austr...
Ahead of hosting the 2024 Olympic Games, Paris is getting a makeover – including painting the Eiffel Tower gold! Since its construction, the Eiffel Tower has changed colour several times. Occasional renovations, wear an...
Indigenous place names will now be recognised by AusPost technology. Last year, Australia Post delivered more than 2.8 billion items. However, none of those letters, packages or deliveries contained the Indigenous place...
The travel arrangements have been suspended for an initial 72-hour period. Australia has stopped its travel arrangements with New Zealand for a three-day period after a case of a new Covid-19 variant had been discovered...
It was a dead heat between 2016 and 2020 being the hottest year. Nasa announced on Thursday that the average global land and ocean temperature in 2020 was the highest ever measured, edging out the previous record set in...
The show will go on! Finally, some good news! It’s been confirmed that the Eurovision Song Contest will take place as planned on May 22 this year. Eurovision is one of those guilty pleasures that you embrace with...
It appears as though the Pfizer vaccine will fight both COVID-19 mutations effectively. In the past few weeks, two new mutations of COVID-19 have been identified. One is said to have originated in the UK and the other i...