The cocks crowed in Canberra greeting the dawn that crisp Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Here a federal government lay caught in a crisis of alleged rapes and misogyny its feather ruffling sweeping attention away from what should otherwise have been its prime concern: the nation’s existential fight against Covid-19. Australia lived largely Covid-19-free. Yet, its Covid vaccine rollout had already proven a joke. Four million Pfizer and AstraZeneca twin-doses were promised by the end of March in the arms of those resident in aged care, their workforces and those running hotel quarantine. The government called it “Phase 1a”. That Wednesday though, a mere 182,000 doses had been administered and the federal health minister Greg Hunt was about to exacerbate his mess announcing the roll out…