THE QUARANTINE QUEEN (SBS)

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH – What do you do if you are traveling back to Australia from your mother’s funeral and have to spend 2 weeks in a lonely Covid-19 quarantine hotel room, without much in the way of support for your emotional wellbeing or indeed, anything to do at all. Weekly, in Australia, 100’s of people find themselves isolated from the world because federal regulations mandate that all overseas travelers go into 14-day quarantine upon arrival in Australia. Monique Mach née Walraven decided to make the best of a dire situation and used the 3 brown paper bags she would collect each day from food deliveries to make… stuff. Sometime a hat, sometimes a dress, and even the Statue of Liberty. When she decided to post her creations on Facebook, the good news story went viral!