Why are we at Orange?

[SueDonim]

I think if Omicron hadn't surfaced we could have gone to green and followed what was originally planned. But Omicron did surface and now it's here and red seems to be holding it back. We had several super-spreader events in the last few days of orange and had we been in green we would now be following NSW. So far we seem to be doing OK, although it's still only early days.