... predictably boring contributor ....
Daffy Duck,
He's definitely not boring, you are. Just because you're socially inept & don't understand does not make him boring.
Try & get among some everyday people at times & you'll see what I mean !
Stay away from the obsolete Arty-Farty crowd !

Cumberland. All you say is correct and gets no argument from me.

I wasn't saying anything else, just that there are other more promising more efficacious vaccines with fewer side effects and could lead to other medical breakthroughs that could create an economic bonanza for Australia and many Australians.

Besides as you say, what's on the table now locally, may not be effective against some of the new variants and tantamount to taking last seasons flu vaccine to find it totally ineffective against this season's variant.

We do some world-leading research and we do have as many as a dozen new MR candidates that could become the gold standard the rest of the world wants and could be made here and exported from here.

I'm just looking at the possible economic advantages as opposed to business as usual and exporting our best minds and the bulk of our best ideas. Time we invested for the future and for Australia, not anybody with a handful of allegorical silver.

And time we stopped relying on the Chinese nanny teat of tourism and students and once again become a nation that makes things.

When that was the literal mindset and before the pollies sold us down the river, we were the third wealthiest nation on the planet and a debt-free, creditor one at that.

We don't need more people just mass automation and an energy policy that enables that as well as real tax reform and the downsized rationalisation of government. The new slogan for industry ought to be, Automate or perish!
Alan B.

Alan B.

Well I think there's plenty of automate or perish going on LOL.