The Four Per Cent

ebook Locked down but left out during Melbourne's Covid response

By Lauren Smith

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"Throw it all at me. Take everything you can. Even in the end I will not be defeated."


How much would you give up to never return to your darkest moment?


Your livelihood?

Your house?

Your business?

Your friends?

Your self-worth?


Melbourne's record-breaking 262-day-lockdown should have been a collective experience shared by residents of the city. However, Government directives in those final months forced friends and families against one another in a debate over who was worthy of freedom.


Four per cent of that population have a story to tell - one that has never been heard.


This is the story of Melbourne's lockdown, told from the inside by someone left on the outside.


The Four Per Cent