Tempers are frayed, we’ve become a nation divided over Fortress Australia and the Covid-19 response | Tim Soutphommasane

For a while Australia seemed to be on top of Covid-19, but we have lost our way - and an ideology is to blame

Has Australia lost the plot? It's the question many of us are asking. Our pandemic response, for so long admired as world-leading, is rapidly unravelling before our eyes. And as a nation, it feels like we are unravelling too.

Our tempers are frayed, our patience thin. We all want someone to blame. We've become a nation divided: by politics, by state, by age, even by vaccine.