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Collected Item: “HIST30060: Anti-Lockdown Pub Menu”

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HIST30060: Anti-Lockdown Pub Menu

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This screenshot of a pub's 'freedom menu' captures the way that people's opinions lockdown measures have been expressed in strange ways. It also highlights the unusual propensity for anti-lockdown opinions to elevate their struggle to that of great civil rights movements of history with their persistent use of terminology like segregation.

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Regional Victorian Pub

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2021-04-22
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