Eventually,as with compulsory vaccinations for pre-schoolers in some parts of Australia,it may be unremarkable to require school-aged children to have the COVID-19 vaccine.
Whichever party wins the next election needs to use the momentum of victory to make the case for change.
In this age of the long wait,none have waited longer than Melbourne Football Club supporters.
The US President was supposed to restore the world’s faith in America’s reliability after the Trump years,but the chaos in Kabul has diminished his reputation.
We must not get carried away on a wave of Victorian-era enthusiasm,particularly as COVID has inured us somewhat to what-the-hell levels of government spending.
While Christianity is still the most common faith,the religious and ethnic make-up of our state is far more diverse today than it was a century ago.
Spelling out immunisation targets and the rewards that will follow from success,including the resumption of overseas travel,offers - finally – a road map to normal life.
Arrivals to Australia have been recently halved to just 3000 a week. With so many Australians desperate to return home,why was a woman here to generate controversy and ratings for a TV show allowed in?
A little compassion goes a long way,and the lesson is clear for all:the time for politicking and petty point-scoring is over.
As we move further into our second year of living with COVID-19,it seems increasingly likely that many of the changes that happened so rapidly in 2020 are here to stay. But there is cause for optimism.
Tokyo and the International Olympic Committee have a huge feat to pull off. Should they succeed,they will give us a powerful symbol of our own determination to keep going in a transformed world.