I repeat: The acute crises of ventilator shortages may be essentially over, and the unvaccinated vulnerable may be mostly dead, but COVID remains a chronic, grinding threat to long-term health outcomes, to socioeconomic stability and social cohesion.

We’ve had one this year too - so pretty. What plant is that in the photo that it likes?

The little koala is still in the same street in Inverloch. I hope it’s doing ok

Residential aged care vaccination: 12 Feb 2025

🔸41.4% of aged care residents received a vaccination in the last 6 months

We’re one of the richest countries in the world. We can afford anything we want but not everything we want. We can ‘afford’ $350 billion for submarines and $250bn for tax cuts and $14bn per year in fossil fuel subsidies…but apparently we ‘can’t afford’ to invest in health or eduction…BS of course

Communications in one mission overseas:
"I'm sorry to say that all of us will be on administrative leave -- perhaps even starting today/this evening. I don't have the adequate words. Please know that your work was good, and it mattered."