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Canberra occasionally gets sneered at by Sydneysiders whose idea of style is having toenails matching the Lexus, but when it comes to rolling up sleeves and doing the right thing, we have no peer.
The disparaged quiet virtues of community and sensibleness got the jab done.
As official figures show that 90 per cent have had the two, full vaccination doses, it's hard to find anywhere else which has done better.
No country has reached 90 per cent fully vaccinated, though the United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Cuba, Chile and Spain come near.
For cities, it's often lower. San Francisco is held up as a leader in the US but it only has 60 per cent of its eligible population vaccinated.
London comes close, with 89 per cent. The city state of Singapore is often touted as highly vaccinated but it only has 83 per cent of people over the age of 12 fully protected.
A close contender to Canberra as the most vaccinated city may be Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
A month ago, there were headlines all over the world about "nobody left to vaccinate" there. "We have actually run out of adults to give shots to," a nurse in Lisbon told The Washington Post.
But there were people left to vaccinate. There aren't figures for Lisbon itself but the country has 79 per cent vaccination. The capital may be higher but it seems unlikely to have reached the full Canberran level.
Of course, this isn't a game show. The league table doesn't matter in itself, but Canberrans are entitled to feel proud. We're top of a league where the champion's cup contains more freedom in our daily lives and less risk of serious illness. It's a league worth winning.
So how did Canberra do it?
There are a few factors in the ACT's favour. Firstly, the population is highly educated, and education and vaccination rates move together.
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According to the 2016 census, a quarter of Canberrans have education beyond school compared with only 16 per cent for Australia as a whole.
Canberrans are also better paid and more likely to be in full-time employment than the average Australian, and that, too, is a good indicator of the likelihood of getting vaccinated.
So the demographics were there.
There has been no substantial criticism of the ACT government's roll-out of the vaccines. The start was slow because the supplies weren't there but once they were, everything clicked into gear.
The city's size and coherence may have helped.
It was easy to get to the vaccination centres. They were many and near, in pharmacies and surgeries.
And Canberra is big enough to be a city but small enough to feel something like a community.
The ACT government pushed the vaccination message, particularly to vulnerable and disadvantaged people who might easily have been neglected in bigger places.
Party politics has been absent. The Liberal opposition hasn't seized on glitches to make cheap points. There has been no obvious criticism of Chief Minister Andrew Barr in the way he presented a clear message in the daily press conferences, aided in imparting credibility by the chief health officer.
No doubt, their task was helped by the low number of cases - as the numbers rose in Victoria and New South Wales in contrast, public dismay also grew.
But it's the people who did it. "Canberrans have a great sense of civic responsibility and public spirit, we're a caring community," the Canberra MP Alicia Payne said.
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