Untangling Australia's COVID vaccine rollout timetable By Inga Ting, Nathanael Scott and Alex Palmer As Victorians head back into lockdown, the slow pace of Australia's COVID-19 vaccine campaign has again been thrust into the spotlight . "If more people were vaccinated, we might be facing a very different set of circumstances than we are today," Victoria's Acting Premier James Merlino told reporters on Thursday. Even before the AstraZeneca shakeup in April threw the entire strategy into disarray, Australia's vaccine rollout had fallen short of every target. "We don't want to make promises that we can't keep. That is incredibly important," Prime Minister Scott Morrison assured Australians in January.