I am willing to bet that the Australian press did not give front page coverage to this story. The Sunday Times has concluded its investigation of the origins of Covid, and concludes that communist Chinese scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of virology were working on gain-of-function genetic engineering, to make a new mutant coronavirus at the same time as the pandemic, so called, began. A lab leak occurred, but there is not enough information to determine if this was accidental or deliberate. The smoking gun is that the communist Chinese virologists were working on a vaccine at the same time. As well, China deliberately was secretive about the outbreaks, which allowed the virus to spread to the West. It does not take much imagination, I believe to see much, if not all of the story as intended by the CCP.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/inside-wuhan-lab-covid-pandemic-china-america-qhjwwwvm0