Burradoo Journal

By Burradoo

Not amused

Last October we spent a week in South Kensington, happily immersed in Victoriana. This portrait of Queen Victoria hangs in Kensington Palace, where she spent her childhood and where she was proclaimed Queen in 1837.

So why a portrait of Queen Victoria today? Because tonight the state border between Victoria and New South Wales will be closed indefinitely, as a result of a surge in Covid-19 cases in Victoria. The border covers a length of 1000 km and there are 55 border crossings.The last time it was closed like this was in 1919, during the Spanish flu pandemic.

The state of Victoria was named after the Queen in 1851. She would not, one imagines, be amused at these events.

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