While countries are vaccinating their populations, Australia, a wealthy Western country which once had an enviable health system, is now behind even poor countries such as Rwanda. Australia has eradicated the virus, a combination of being an island and draconian lockdowns which saw people virtually locked in their houses for up to 7 months at a time. Then, while other countries began to vaccinate their populations in late December, Australia refused to allow vaccines to be imported into the country, finally relenting in late February, promising that 4 million would be vaccinated by the end of March. To date only just over 500,000 people have got their first dose. Australia imported the superior and proven Pfizer vaccine for certain groups of people which, in the words of one politician, “deserve it”, including the Prime Minister, while the rest of the population will only get the inferior AstraZeneca vaccine, a vaccine that 21 countries have stopped using over safety fears. The government refuses to allow other vaccines such as those from Moderna or Johnson & Johnson to be imported. Once the envy of the world, Australia has become an incompetent and cruel third world dictatorship.