We now know the movements of Sydney's rogue-removalist trio in great detail.
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Their route across the country, including COVID-19-threatening stop-overs on the Border, is detailed in much the same way as you would get with a European package tour travel itinerary.
The removalists clearly realise, belatedly, the seriousness of what they have done, even if what they've done is, conversely, also tainted with a supreme level of stupidity.
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But, of course, they have also tried to cover their tracks.
That's perfectly illustrated by the fact it was a few days before it was even established they were travelling not in one but two trucks.
Nevertheless, thanks to hard work behind the scenes we have been given a picture of where they have been and when.
When you look at the ramifications for not just small communities, such as Jindera where one Border exposure occurred, but also large - in metropolitan Melbourne - it is quite the worry.
But what is perhaps most curious now is the fact that we don't know who these people are, nor the business that pays their wages.
Privacy restrictions are, of course, paramount in many areas these days, enshrined in various pieces of legislation across several Australian jurisdictions.
But surely this is a case where such a thing as privacy is down the list of priorities.
Mug shots and details of our "most wanted" are regularly provided to the media when police need to track down someone who is known to have committed a crime, or who has, for example, failed to attend court.
Granted, the case of our rogue renovators is different to such cases in that not only do the authorities know who they are, they have also caught up with them.
But the whole issue of the trio's evasiveness in furnishing authorities with information so crucial to efforts in trying to stop this particular Delta variant spread must figure in such considerations.
And that is so important for one critical reason - that there might still be a host of exposure sites that no-one as yet knows.
