Lockdowns in the eastern parts of Australia as outbreaks of the Delta variant continues has apparently prompted people to reassess their willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccination a new national poll revealed. The Melbourne Institute’s fortnightly report card into vaccine hesitancy shows it has fallen, from 33 per cent at the end of May to 21.5 per cent last Friday. The poll surveyed 1,200 Australian adults. The sharp drop in hesitancy over the past eight weeks is across all states and age groups. With Greater Sydney and its surroundings enduring the fourth week in lockdown, vaccine hesitancy rates in NSW are at 14.6 per cent. That has more than halved since late May and the authors of the report cite a sole reason. “The outbreaks are clearly changing some people’s minds about getting vaccinated, especially in NSW,” said the report, published on Wednesday by the leading economic and social policy research …