Live where I am and let’s see how calm you remain.
You are right. You most often have to be there to know how bad something is. This is not a trick question, I am genuinely interested; how are the Australian government's mandates and restrictions impacting your life? Awhile back, you mentioned travel restrictions including within your state. What other things have a direct impact on you? What are you doing to cope with them? Are you employed? If so, have these restrictions affected your job and your income?
Being retired, when Oregon was going through the most stringent 'restrictions' (our governor didn't like to refer to them as mandates), just short of a lockdown, I was barely impacted. Aside from the fact that wearing a mask makes me feel like I can't breathe and fogs my glasses so I can't see plus not being able to hang out with friends, go out to eat and go to the gym, the restrictions had very little impact on me. One real bummer is that my son and his family live in Germany and I've missed being able to attend some milestone events with them because of travel restrictions and my own concern about being confined in a airplane for 13 hours with people who might be unknowingly be sharing COVID with us other passengers.
I see the pandemic as the problem, not what our government or public pressure is doing. Considering this, my main focus is on doing whatever is possible to end the pandemic.....not saying COVID because there probably is no way to end it anytime in the foreseeable future.