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I woke to a sombre Melbourne this morning.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
My city is hosting AIDS 2014 starting on Sunday. <\/span><\/div>\n
14,000 delegates are arriving in town.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Melbourne has just over four million people.<\/span><\/div>\n
We are a small city by world standards<\/span><\/div>\n
everyone knows someone, who knows someone<\/span><\/div>\n
who is involved…<\/span><\/div>\n

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One of the Mums at Bookclub<\/span><\/div>\n
is a Director of HIV Medicine.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
My boss has just taken a week off work <\/span><\/div>\n
to volunteer at this event.<\/span><\/div>\n
Friends kids are working with the catering companies…<\/span><\/div>\n
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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Next week Melbourne hosts the world’s leading <\/span><\/div>\n
HIV leaders, scientists and researchers.<\/span><\/div>\n
Former US president Bill Clinton and activist Bob Geldof are due to speak.<\/span><\/span>

<\/span><\/span>Melbourne is no stranger to big events<\/span><\/span>
think Commonwealth Games, Formula 1 Grand Prix, Australian Open,<\/span><\/span>
but this one just quietly, we are rather proud of.<\/span><\/span>

<\/span><\/span>Rather proud that without anyone batting an eyelid <\/span>
we were playing our part in getting together the world’s <\/span><\/div>\n

leading experts in the global fight against HIV.<\/span>

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State Library, Swanston Street, Melbourne.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Yesterday we woke to the news <\/span><\/div>\n

of the crash <\/span>of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, <\/span>
shot down over Ukraine near Russian border.<\/span><\/div>\n
Our Prime Minister, Tony Abbot tells us <\/span>
of the 298 on board, <\/span>28 are Australians,<\/span>
Eighteen were Victorian residents.<\/span><\/div>\n
Flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur<\/span>
with a connection onto Melbourne.<\/span>

<\/span>There is initially a suggestion that up to 100 people on this flight<\/span>
were heading to Melbourne for AIDS 2014.<\/span>
Six Dutch passengers travelling to attend the conference <\/span>
have now been confirmed among the dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

 They say <\/span>\u201cThe cure for AIDS may have been on that plane…” <\/span><\/i><\/div>\n


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Federation Square, Melbourne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Yesterday we saw horrific pictures of the burning wreckage.<\/span>
Today we see the personal stories of Australian lives lost,<\/span>
including a Melbourne University student.<\/span>

<\/span>We are in the middle of the University holidays<\/span><\/div>\n
many of my daughter’s Uni friends are in Europe travelling.<\/span><\/div>\n
This would not be an untypical route home.<\/span><\/div>\n
Malaysian Airlines prices are good,<\/span><\/div>\n
more so, after they lost MH370.<\/span>

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Taken before all the flags were lowered to half mast until the end of AIDS 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Our Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle<\/span><\/div>\n
put this tweet out last night:<\/span><\/div>\n
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There is no greater test of character for a city, than how they respond to a tragedy such as this. Proud to be a Melburnian. #MH17<\/a> #AIDS2014<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\u2014 Robert Doyle (@LordMayorMelb) July 18, 2014<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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<\/span>Sorry I generally pride my blog as a happy place,<\/span><\/div>\n
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but Melbourne is in shock.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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