We could do with some good news here in Melbourne, where a kind of grey despondency still cloaks the city, rather like East Berlin circa 1960. Though supposedly loosed of our lockdown chains, the vacant shops and empty offices we see indicate that economic recovery remains a long way off. Of course, it’s not all gloom: Premier Daniel Andrews’s sterling record in keeping coronavirus deaths in Victoria down to only 820 out of the national total of 909—that’s 90.21 per cent—shows what good hands we’re in as we wrench ourselves out of the quagmire of restrictions and embark on the…