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The Weekend Read: Richard Denniss on the worst policy failure in Australian history

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Vaccines - The Tyranny of Distances Dominated Much of Australian Life

If the prime minister had hit the targets he set for himself, we would have achieved 80 % adult vaccination in late august. And if all border workers, including limousine drivers, had been vaccinated as a priority, as he h'd promised, the recent sidney, milbourne and cambra lockdowns would have likely avoided having gone for months. Since federation, the tyranny of distances dominated much of australian life. But with covet it gave us a priceless head start that was squandered by poor planning, poor implementation and poor communication. The death told will only rise. We are still in a race with coverd 19. And millions of australians,

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