Culture cringe seems alive in Australia. Speaking in parliament on 27 October, Labor’s deputy leader Richard Marles made a pointed comparison with the UK. On 30 July, he said, the UK had 846 and Victoria had 723 new cases. ‘Today, with zero cases in Victoria, we saw yesterday in Great Britain, 20,890 new cases of coronavirus recorded’.
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