Given that the situation has become a bit more concerning… I would dare say the justification is justified.
Melbourne’s Moomba Festival has been scrapped this year siting Covid-19 and Melbourne’s lockdown to blame
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Very disappointing decision.
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I don’t understand why they couldn’t just push the event back to spring (Sep/Oct/Nov)?
It’s an overreaction to scrap it all together.
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From The Age
According to the Mayor, the Victorian Water Ski Association pulled out of the festival this week, while some interstate suppliers were unable to commit to the event in the wake of the five-day “circuit-breaker” in Victoria which ended today.
Sounds like the final straw on top of no parade and no birdman rally. Just leaves the carnival rides and hopefully they’ll be booked out later in the year on the show circuit.
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martin Pakula the victorian minister for Major events told radio station 3AW that Moomba will go-ahead next month in a covid safe way .
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The council runs it, so the council cancelled it. No one told Martin Pakula and he got upset.
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the Melbourne council has advised that the Moomba festival won’t be axed but a revised Moomba festival instead
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So pretty much everything except the parade, water skiing and birdman rally.
From The Age
- A busking competition in the city centre where the winner will receive a ‘golden ticket’ to Melbourne’s best events.
- Significant buildings across the city will be lit up in red to encourage everyone to show their love for Melbourne.
- An extended program of pop up music performances and street art installations in city laneways.
- A Moomba Conversation event at the Library at the Dock.
- Concerts at the Myer Music Bowl featuring stars like the Cat Empire, Spiderbait, Jebediah and Bodyjar.
- Kids at the Bowl: four performances on Saturday and Sunday of the Labour Day weekend, featuring Justine Clarke, Jimmy Giggle, Dan Sultan, and Pevan & Sarah.
- The Australian Skate League National Championships at Riverside Skate Park.
- An Immersive Digital Forest at ArtPlay from Saturday March 6 to 8.
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Hobart has cancelled its Anzac Day parade for this year but commemorations in Brisbane and across regional Queensland will go ahead.
Good news! Jets members finally get back into their assigned seats as stadiums are back to 75% capacity. 
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Daniel Andrews is set to announce today a return of up to 50% crowds at AFL games in Melbourne. 50,000 set at the mcg in 20days when Richmond face Carlton. and crows at marvel stadium can begin when aami series starts on March 4th Up to 28,961.
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The Sunday Telegraph today reveals the changes made to this year’s Sydney Royal Easter Show. The showbag hall, rides, food and animal shows will all be back, but public transport won’t be included in the ticket price. Instead people are asked to pre-book show tickets and parking to meet contact tracing requirements. There will also be COVID marshals, plus wider aisles and separate entry and exit points for each venue.
If the Sydney Royal Easter Show goes ahead this year (I still have doubts myself), personally I wonder how they’re going to do the Showbag launch for the media?
One would presume they’d have to divert from the usual format of having a couple of hundred kids from the Children’s Hospitals & Royal Far West in the same room…
All matches of the Constellation Cup netball series, which starts tomorrow (March 2), will now be played in Christchurch behind closed doors due to COVID-19 alert level two for the rest of the country.
Three frontline workers had been honoured as Moomba monarchs for 2021.
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ABC Grandstand host Corbin Middlemas said just before 4pm AEDT that due to the positive test, the AFLW match between Brisbane Lions and Collingwood would now be played in Melbourne’s Whitten Oval tomorrow afternoon (March 14), with Lions players having to flying into and out of Melbourne on the same day.
EDIT: venue change now confirmed.
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More than 100 live music venues across Victoria have signed an open letter, begging the state government to lift crowd capacity from 30% to 100%, warning Melbourne’s reputation as the world’s live music capital is on the verge of collapse.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/melbourne-in-danger-of-losing-reputation-as-live-music-capital/news-story/53d303d080327813b8b3b0dd36878e3f
The full open letter can be seen on the homepage of Save Our Scene
In all honesty I wouldn’t mind if some level of ‘social distancing’ or reduced capacity remains in place post-COVID. Don’t get me wrong I understand that these have impacts on businesses, however I would gladly pay a bit more for a ticket to something if it meant not being crammed in.
A good example was on Friday I went to Tommy Little’s Comedy Showcase at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. That venue now has a full socially distanced setup and it was great. We had our own table, QR codes for ordering etc. It made it a far more enjoyable experience IMO. My previous memories of the Bowl were being crammed in right up with the front with barely any room to move. I’ll take this current setup any day.
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