Good morning. The long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is felt in many ways, from the economy to working from home. But our medical editor Melissa Davey has an exclusive story raising concerns about how personal data was treated during the crisis. She reports that the Victorian government – faced with spiralling cases in July 2020 – passed contact tracing information to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission for use on the controversial data mining platform Palantir, in a move described by experts as “dubious” and “outrageous”. We also look at how the vaccine rollout numbers stack up ahead of a possible new wave of infections.
Peter Dutton has led tributes to former Liberal deputy leader Peter Reith, dubbed “warrior of the waterfront”, who has died aged 72. And Sri Lanka cricket has opened an investigation into player behaviour in Australia during the T20 World Cup.
