“Trying to be productive and exercise has definitely been tricky. I miss the social interaction of team sports,” says Fiona Harris, one of millions of Melburnians stuck in lockdown. With exercise limited to one hour a day and group activities banned, team sports like netball and football, as well as outdoor exercise classes, are just a memory. And switching the couch for one hour of limited outdoor exercise can be harder than it seems. “It’s the same thing every day and th

As they saw the scale of the disaster the nation faced, Australia’s Sikh community committed to staying as long as they were needed. “We realised, we were not going home until this is over,” says Jaswinder Singh, acting secretary for Sikh Volunteers Australia. Then their task was feeding hundreds of people displaced by the bushfires that ravaged Australia’s east coast in summer, and the emergency services who were helping them. Many months later they’re still flat out, onl