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COVID-19 Basic Protection Guide 101: How to Get the Most from Your Mask

The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is an infectious respiratory disease with several symptoms, which can be mild, moderate, or severe. These symptoms include cough, fever, tiredness, loss of...

Taking COVID pills at home sounds great. But we need to use them wisely or risk drug resistance and new variants

Image: Shutterstock GPs can now prescribe antiviral pills for some of their vulnerable COVID-19 patients to take at home. More patients are expected...

Planning a Christmas get-together? 8 tips to avoid a super-spreader event

Image: Shutterstock Not many more sleeps until Christmas, and all those long lunches and get-togethers with family and friends. If...

Nose sprays, needle-free patches, durable immunity: towards the next generation of COVID vaccines

  Image: John Cairns, University of Oxford via AP The past 20 months has seen an explosion of vaccine...

If I catch COVID-19 at work what are my rights? A law expert explains

  Image: Shutterstock The transition to “living with COVID” makes contracting the virus at work a distinct possibility, even...

How Accounting Firms Have Adapted In A Post-COVID World

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all facets of life, including the accounting firms in Melbourne. With governments imposing restrictions, employers sending their employees home,...

Can ‘viral shedding’ after the COVID vaccine infect others? That’s a big ‘no’

  Image: Shuttlestock Fears of “viral shedding” and other concerns after the COVID vaccine has led some businesses to ban vaccinated customers from the premises,...

Victoria’s 5-day lockdown may not quash Delta. Here’s what our modelling predicts instead

  Daniel Pockett/AAP Image Victoria has entered a five-day lockdown to control its growing outbreak of the more infectious Delta variant. Until midnight on Tuesday restrictions mean residents are only allowed...

Arts and culture workers neglected during COVID, study shows, as sector set to miss out again

As NSW and Victoria grapple with a fresh round of lockdowns, advocates including ACOSS and the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance are warning new...

Morrison’s ‘new deal’ for a return to post-COVID normal is not the deal most Australians want

  Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP All-encompassing crises like a pandemic can expose systemic flaws and failures in government and society, clearing the decks for radical reform...

View from the Hill: COVID battle on a knife edge

  Picture: Joel Carrett/AAP The argument Scott Morrison has consistently put – that NSW has a better way of dealing with COVID, by avoiding comprehensive...

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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.