Like all other establishment institutions, the think-tank industry in Australia was wholly compliant with the official Covid narrative so it is no surprise that a prime representative of the ‘public policy research’ species, the Grattan Institute, with its latest report, A Fair Shot: How to close the vaccination gap, continues with the stale old melodrama about helpless Australians trapped in the clutches of an evil virus with only the hero Covid vaccine able to save them at the eleventh hour.