Mr Morrison said Australia had paid for the vaccines and it wanted to see them redirected to “support our nearest neighbour, PNG, to deal with their urgent needs in our region”.
A pallet of humanitarian stores is loaded onto a Royal Australian Air Force C130J Hercules transport aircraft at HMAS Albatross, Nowra, New South Wales.From January 3 to March 16 there have been 2351 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 26 deaths reported, but the country’s low testing rates have raised concerns the true extent of the outbreak is much worse.
“We know that there are some of those bordering communities in PNG that are very close to the Torres Strait, so of course that is going to be a priority for us to help with any vaccination program there,” she said.
This of course has nothing to do with the interests of the mining industry in maintaining a free flow of Western FIFO workers to avoid having to actually invest in skills development in the impoverished economy whose resources they're busy stealing
It wouldn’t be a risk if Morrison actually vaccinated Australians.
Surely that’s not the only reason to help out our neighbours?
The reasons why second dose of COVID-19 vaccine has worse side effects
Gotta offload that AstraZeneca vaccine somehow!
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