How we compared on Covid to Australian states
| Cases | Deaths | Population | Cases/mil | Deaths/mil | |
| QLD | 2105 | 7 | 5,129,996 | 410 | 1.4 |
| WA | 1112 | 9 | 2,639,080 | 421 | 3.4 |
| TAS | 237 | 13 | 537,012 | 441 | 24.2 |
| SA | 918 | 4 | 1,759,184 | 522 | 2.3 |
| NT | 231 | 0 | 244,761 | 944 | – |
| NZ | 8107 | 33 | 4,886,000 | 1,659 | 6.8 |
| ACT | 1902 | 14 | 427,419 | 4,450 | 32.8 |
| AUS | 185627 | 1862 | 25,517,510 | 7,274 | 73.0 |
| NSW | 77671 | 606 | 8,128,984 | 9,555 | 74.5 |
| VIC | 101451 | 1209 | 6,651,074 | 15,253 | 181.8 |
Five Australian states or territories have actually had fewer Covid-19 cases than NZ, and four of them fewer fatalities per million. It is great we have not had the numbers of NSW and Victoria but would be even better to be a Queensland or Western Australia.