Tamed Estate: Gladys leads from behind

Australia’s streak of no community Covid-19 transmission was ended by a breach in hotel quarantine, with the virus thought to have entered the country via airline crew from the United States. As with the recent outbreak in South Australia, the words “hotel quarantine” or “fiasco” were scarcely mentioned – evidently such words are reserved for breaches in the Victorian hotel quarantine system.

Despite this being the second potential devastating failure of Sydney’s hotel quarantine system, the blame was placed squarely on the individuals – not the government, as we have seen elsewhere.

Covid-19 was then taken on a merry journey around the Northern Beaches of Sydney, allegedly by a couple in their 60s and 70s who…