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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...

RFDS ramps up vaccinations as wet season approaches

Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) crews continue to travel hundreds of thousands of kilometres each week to transport...

Do vaccination passports take away freedoms? It depends on how you frame the question

  Picture: Dave Hunt/AAP You may have already downloaded to your phone a digital certificate proving you have received one or two doses of a...

National Cabinet leaves us in the dark about reopening the nation, so we’re left joining the dots

      Prime Minister Scott Morrison talked about the Kabul bombings on Friday but didn’t announce what happened at National Cabinet. Mick Tsikas/AAP Image National Cabinet met...

Opening with 70% of adults vaccinated, the Doherty report predicts 1.5K deaths in 6 months. We need a revised plan

  Picture: Joel Carrett/AAP One consequence of the escalating COVID outbreak in New South Wales has been increased political tension around the “national plan” for...

Can Australian employers make you get a COVID-19 vaccine? Mostly not — but here’s when they can

  Picture: Onchira Wongsiri/Shutterstock Australia’s official policy on vaccines is that they be voluntary and free. But the federal government hasn’t shut the door completely...

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...

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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.