Depending on your home state or territory, restrictions put in place by COVID-19 after either continuing to loosen, or tightening as we head into July.
Today, Wednesday, July 1, many states will see the biggest returns to normal they've seen since restrictions came into place in mid-March. In Victoria, however, some residents will find themselves back in lockdown.
The federal government outlined a three-step plan in May with regard to lifting restrictions, but premiers and chief ministers have been adopting those changes at their own pace.
Here's what’s changing this week around the country.
New South Wales.
Grab your netball bib, because children's and adult community sport can resume in NSW today.
The 50-person cap on indoor venues will be scrapped, so long as people are seated. Cinemas, theatres, performance halls, theme parks, show grounds, strip clubs and brothels can reopen.
Indoor and outdoor funerals will now allow one-person per four square metres.
Limits on household visitors and outside gatherings remain capped at 20 people.
If you're keen on the footy, large outdoor venues like stadiums with a maximum capacity of 40,000 people will be permitted to host up to 25 per cent capacity, as long as they're ticketed and seated only.
And for those who have returned to their offices and travel by public transport, passenger limits are increasing to:
- Up to 68 people per train carriage
- Up to 23 passengers on an average, two-door bus
- Ferries will be allowed to seat up to 250 passengers
You'll need to continue sitting on the green dots.
Victoria.
Stay-at-home orders have been reinstated in 10 hotspot postcodes in Melbourne. Residents of 3012, 3021, 3032, 3038, 3042, 3046, 3047, 3055, 3060 and 3064 postcodes can only leave their homes for work, school, caregiving, exercise or food shopping.