The nation has quickly lurched from pretty COVID comfortable, to being on high alert today, as South Australia's premier slaps on new restrictions from midnight, over the coronavirus outbreak in Adelaide's northern suburbs.

* The Adelaide cluster threatens plans to re-open the country by Christmas, and states and territories have been quick .. and varied .. in their response.

* SA health officials say it’s likely the outbreak originated from a quarantine hotel .. and infectious diseases experts say that was just a matter of time.

* The Federal government avoids a court case over its botched Robodebt program - at a cost of one-point-two billion dollars, which includes hundreds of thousands of dollars in wrongly collected debt.

* A new ASIC report finds an alarming rise in the number young people being snared in buy-now-pay-later schemes they can't afford.

* And.. an Indonesian rock star faces a potential prison sentence over controversial COVID comments - highlighting the country's tough cyber defamation laws.