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International travellers have flown into Melbourne for the first time in months Source:-abc The first international flight to land in Melbourne since June has touched down at Melbourne Airport. The flight, from Colombo, is one of eight international flights due to land in Melbourne today. Passengers arriving from overseas will go straight into Victoria’s revamped hotel quarantine system. More than 170 Australian Defence Force personnel are now involved in the scheme, temperature checking staff and helping to manage the entry and exit of travellers into hotels. Victoria Police will be in charge of all aspects of security within quarantine hotels. Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville, who is ultimately responsible for overseeing the scheme, said the chances of another hotel quarantine breach were minimal. “You can’t say 100 per cent that you’re not going to get an infection out of it, these are people that are coming back from ...

Neville Weereratne: the Artist and his Distant Homeland – by Tony Donaldson The first page of Cradle Songs published in the Ceylon Observer Pictorial in 1967 with illustrations by Neville Weereratne. by Tony Donaldson This essay on the life and art of Neville Weereratne is based on interviews recorded in Melbourne in July 2014 and from material collected during fieldwork in Australia and Sri Lanka. The artist and author Neville Weereratne died in Melbourne on 3 January 2018 at the age of 86. He was born in Colombo on 3 December 1931. A Sinhalese by descent and the youngest of five siblings, he began drawing at about the age of six. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family in Hulftsdorp, near to the Supreme and Magistrate courts, but their home was requisitioned by the civil authorities in World War 2 and so the family moved into a ...