The big experiment: NSW plots how to live with delta

Gladys Berejiklian is at the centre of Australia’s opening up experiment. But with daily cases topping 1400 on Friday, pressure is building on the state’s hospital capacity.

The way out: Gladys Berejiklian says there is no alternative to living with COVID-19. But the road map is fraying at the edges. Dominic Lorrimer

Tom McIlroyCanberra Bureau Chief

Sep 3, 2021 – 2.24pm

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Fighting to hold a fractious national cabinet together, Scott Morrison put pen to paper. With cases spiralling in NSW and Victoria’s Daniel Andrews admitting COVID-zero had slipped out of reach, the Prime Minister wrote to nearly 600,000 Australian seniors this week.

“The recent outbreaks of the new, more infectious, strains of the COVID-19 virus, with some tragic deaths in Sydney, make it even more important that Australians over 60 get vaccinated now,” he told the holdout boomers, urging them to tap the country’s plentiful supplies of AstraZeneca.