CHO says the effective reproduction number is 0.96, rounding up to 1 - so, very low. We've already been in lockdown for weeks and are about to be for weeks more yet the only further thing we can do is...play golf?
Sure, blame NSW for the outbreak, but it's on the ACT government to provide an actual pathway for reopening
The 'plan' to reopen is to do what we did last year when there was no vaccine...
It's hard to overstate how big a deal this is for Australia's defence capabilities #AUKUS
Nuclear powered (not armed, as Biden was very keen to emphasise) submarines will give the navy the capability it was realistically always seeking
An 18 month consultation period is perhaps understandable after such a big decision but the key focus has to be getting new boats in the water asap. The mid-2030s projection for the first Attack-class was way too long #AUKUS