The world’s lockdown capital emerges for its first Friday night of freedom, but not everyone joined the party
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From St Kilda to Coburg the traffic is heavy in Melbourne for the first time in months. The bars are filling up and friends are having long hugs as the world’s lockdown capital sheds its Covid restrictions and opens up.
“Melbourne is back!” yells one man out of his car window on Lygon Street in the inner-city suburb of Carlton.
