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An interesting piece on augmented reality art in Melbourne as a possible balm to Covid ills:
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Matilda Boseley, your blog pal, Hazzards a guess at whether the NSW health minister has actually read Hunger Games (I haven’t and won’t):
Related: Brad Hazzard compared the vaccine rollout to the Hunger Games. Has he actually read it or has he lost the plot? | Matilda Boseley
