Australia has saved itself from Covid mass deaths and economic ruin, but NIC WHITE explains how our failure on many other fronts could see us left behind as the rest of the world gets back to business as usual - and we ALL share the blame
With only 910 deaths and 22,000 cases, Australia avoided Covid disaster
But this success obscured other serious failures in leadership and planning
Vaccine program is so badly botched it will keep borders closed until mid-2022
Families will be torn apart for 28 months and country bleeds tourist dollars Scott Morrison s hands off approach and poor quarantine also contributed
Returned Australians are furious after being forced to spend another 14 days in quarantine after a mystery Covid cluster was linked to their Brisbane hotel.
Almost 130 returned travellers at the Hotel Grand Chancellor were told they were being moved out on Wednesday and must restart their two weeks isolation.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she held grave concerns about the hotel cluster after six people - four quarantining guests, a cleaner and her partner - contracted the highly-contagious UK strain of coronavirus.
Travellers who were just hours away from being allowed back into the community say they feel like prisoners trapped in a jail.