A bit of background:<p>The project was given to a political party associate/donor.<p>They basically forked the Singapore (from memory) open source app and re-skinned it.<p>They didn't wait for Google/Apple's updates allowing OS-level integration, meaning there were battery issues from Bluetooth drain.<p>In some states, they didn't create the proper legal framework, meaning police (and lots of other organisations) were able to get access to the data.<p>Due to the legal and battery issues, no one trusted it and stopped using it.<p>It found under 50~ contacts in total, and only 2 contacts that were previously unknown from other contact tracing efforts.<p>Also, the federal government at the time were very secretive - refused to publish data on the app or published it late or in useless summary form, didn't provide any details as to success rate, denied/stalled FOI requests.<p>It was basically a shitshow.
Well, to their credit, at least one Australian state did extremely well and skipped most of the initial COVID carnage by staying sequestered through to omicron.