Although it lacks the teeth of legislation overseas, Victoria’s Yarra River (Birrarung) laws provide a foundation for rights of nature to build on in Australia.
Australian officials found a case of a person in Sydney who was infected with Covid-19 by a stranger just walking past them; two other cases were believed to be infected in similar fashion.
The vaccination campaign is beginning with imported doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and a later phase will use locally manufactured AstraZeneca shots.