As an Australian I actually don’t have much of a problem with this. I didn’t see it mentioned in the article but of the total of 53.4 million doses of AZ vacci

As an Australian I actually don’t have much of a problem with this. I didn’t see it mentioned in the article but of the total of 53.4 million doses of AZ vaccine Australia has ordered 50 million are being manufactured in Australia. What’s more except for some minor outbreaks originating from returned traveller quarantine community transmission has been effectively stopped in Australia for the last 6 months. Even 1 case outside of returned traveller quarantine is big news and cause for internal travel restrictions. It’s been months since the last person died from COVID-19 and the economy has largely recovered to prepandemic GDP levels. Frankly this is a minor delay in Australia’s vaccine rollout and the doses will go to serving places that are frankly more in need.