The ideologically driven mob who sneered at Daniel Andrews, who sounded like a choir of ventriloquist dolls nestled in the lap of corporate Australia, went searching for a magical world immune to coronavirus and its potential for social havoc. Their broken moral compasses led them to Sweden, a country it believed could defy gravity. They only saw what they wanted to see. And now all they can hear is the awful thud of a nation falling back to earth.

Garry Linnell: How Sweden’s magic trick fooled the anti-lockdown brigade