The media is part of all the fear mongering and unfortunately 95 percent of Australians just follow what comes out of the square tube and refuse to think for themselves !!!
Thankfully that is complete crap and MOST Aussies WILL be vaccinated in the coming months. Add to that MOST Aussies followed the rules and kept the death toll to a minimum while we reached that target. Those that didn't did not change anything, except possibly increase the death toll slightly and lengthen the lockdowns, thanks to those selfish individuals we went from a relatively open vaccination period to martial law. The media is completely to blame for vaccine hesitancy and SloMo for putting all eggs into one vaccine at the start causing a slower rollout. As for anti vaxxers, they are what they are, always there for ANY vaccine and not able to be delt with as they are not rational. Protesters are led mostly by a small group of Anti-vaxxers combined with anarchists playing games with the populace. I mean seriously you get Nazis protesting occasionally, I'm not particularly worried about them coming back to power, so a few hundred even thousands out of 5 million in each state protesting lockdowns ain't really news. Community sentiment is definitely way against them even to the point of thinking they are just mindless idiots. This is not BLM with 10s of thousands protesting that actually makes them look like a reasonable segment of the community.