Although this long weekend is the first in which overnight travel is permitted and hopefully some rebound for the tourist industry, there is one area still feeling the pain far and wide and that is community sport.
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AFL might be kicking off but the dozens of local footy ovals, bowls comps, netball and basketball courts will stay silent.
What is lost? Exercise and entertainment yes, but these are also the social glue of so many communities and country towns.
A year without sport? It may be one of the toughest blows of the coronavirus so far.
