The ACT government is already planning for "various vaccination delivery options" for children, including potential school programs, after the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved Pfizer to vaccinate 12-15-year-olds.

Attention is also now turning towards annual booster shots, with the welcome news the federal government has secured an extra 85 million Pfizer doses due to arrive in 2022 and 2023. With the lagging vaccine finally starting to ramp up, the question will become, how tough are we going to be on the wilfully unvaccinated?

Australians are generally fairly compliant, but questions around vaccine hesitancy, both here and overseas, have revealed some previously obscured - or unexamined - divides.

Supply issues, and comparisons between the different strains of the vaccine itself, have played into this to some extent, but when it comes to social responsibility, and acting for the greater good, Australia has a decent track record.

Very few people would object now to the once-controversial move in 2017 to withhold some childcare support to families who choose not to vaccinate their children. The 'No Jab, No Play' policy has been implemented without much protest; most people accept that the decision, on purely ideological grounds, not to vaccinate children should come at a personal cost.

But it's instructive to look at countries like France, which, from next month, will require anyone entering a cafe, restaurant, shopping centre or long-distance train to show a special Covid health pass. The health pass - otherwise known as the EU Digital Covid Certificate - shows whether a person has been vaccinated against COVID-19, received a recent negative test result, or recovered from the virus.

Anyone over the age of 12 is now required to show the pass to visit a movie theatre, museum, live theatre, theme park or cultural centre. There have been massive protests against these measures, however they have also led to a rush on vaccination centres.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the US, after getting off to a quick start on vaccinations, is now trying to deal with those who refuse the jab, a symptom of an ultra-libertarian streak that insists on things like gun ownership for sake of freedom above all else.

Australia, much like the UK, falls somewhere in between France and the US when it comes to requiring its citizens to act for the greater social good. And we have the potential to implement hardline policies requiring vaccination for anyone wanting to take part in mainstream society.

We also have the chance to convince our citizens to be vaccinated, not because they are being ordered to, but because they know it's the right thing to do.

To this end, a positive campaign far beyond the current efforts, highlighting all the aspects of our post-Covid world that are worth fighting for, will be far more effective than scare tactics.

Many of those currently uncertain about the safety of being vaccinated may be more likely to be convinced to roll up their sleeves if they can have their questions answered, rather than being written off as anti-vaxxers.

With riots over lockdowns already taking place, Australians want answers to to know when we will start to reopen as a country. The only way we will be able to safely do so, is get our vaccination program on track.

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