This latest #transitzone podcast was recorded on Sunday 25 July 2021 with Peter Clarke in locked-down Melbourne and Margo Kingston in locked-down regional NSW. As the recording began the premier of NSW, Gladys Berejiklian had just announced at a media conference that the latest number for locally acquired Covid19 cases of the Delta variant in her state was 141 with over 50 of those infectious while in the community. There had been more deaths including a woman in her thirties. Berejiklian was continuing to resist a full blooded lockdown, as in other states previously, to suppress the spreading virus. She spoke of "freedoms" for her citizens. NSW is now cut off behind hard borders from the rest of the federation. Margo and Peter discuss the prospects for suppressing the NSW outbreak, the underwhelming "leadership" of Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, the anti lockdown, anti vaxxer street marches in Sydney and Melbourne, the beating the Australian federation is taking and what the immediate future might hold. Margo also reads her audio essay from the very first #transitzone podcast in May 2020 on the theme of "HOME" during this pandemic and how that notion and experience may have shifted yet again.