Even with the massive advantage of being an island, in order to achieve that Australia had to close their borders back when the WHO and the press in every Weste

Even with the massive advantage of being an island, in order to achieve that Australia had to close their borders back when the WHO and the press in every Western country was insisting that doing so was xennphobic and counterproductive, lock down strictly for months (two weeks would not cut it here), they imprisoned a bunch of their poor in tower blocks under conditions so reminisicent of these cruise ships that it was apparently a human rights violation... and in the end they only got a short-lived success out of it, because now there are new outbreaks which are leading to new lockdowns there yet again.