How it started. How it’s going.

You mean it won’t just be over after today, or even 20 Jan huh?

It’s now safe to turn off your computer.

My views on how in Australia, with still little Covid transmission, good contact tracing and quarantining etc, is an effective and successful approach despite the dire predictions of some. Lockdown demands were wrong: Sydney shows how to fight COVID-19 smh.com.au/national/nsw/l…

The TGA has announced provisional approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine. Supplies can now be shipped to Australia and the TGA will perform batch testing before release. tga.gov.au/covid-19-vacci…

Forget the endless federal government spin, it's the states and territories I want to hear from — they're the ones who will actually be delivering the vaccines and I want to hear how the hard work to prep that is going. What are the feds doing to help… or get in the way?

‘It costs us nothing’: Australian of the Year says change the date theage.com.au/politics/feder…

These are the 2021 Australians of the Year recipients . This photo is my kind of Australia! ❤Rosemary Kariuki - DV fighter. ❤Isobel Marshall - period poverty fighter. ❤Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann - ground-breaking Indigenous teacher. ❤Grace Tame - sex assault fighter.

The Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Today, and every day, I acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, and would like to pay my respects to the Elders both past and present.

Stop requiring a credit or debit card to activate a prepaid SIM, Vodafone Australia. This is wrong and can cause tremendous problems for people who would not normally link a payment method to a PREPAID service. (And I know you know, because you specifically survey this afterwards.)

Update: the large boulder the size of a large boulder is now a large boulder the size of a smaller boulder on CO 145:

This is the first time NSW has gone 28 days without a locally acquired case since the beginning of the pandemic. The previous longest stretch without local cases was 26 days, when there were no cases diagnosed in the reporting cycles between 8pm on 6 November and 8pm on...

The little rotorcraft that could.🚁💨 Ingenuity documented its historic ascent today. Here's the #MarsHelicopter's POV during first flight. That's its shadow on the ground below.

“Our Wright Brothers moment on Mars” indeed — what an inspiration 👏