Row over COVID vaccination advice for Perth's Australia Day fireworks amid council backdown

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A short-lived requirement for people attending Perth's Australia Day Skyworks to be vaccinated against COVID-19 ends in a dispute between the city council and WA government.

The West Australian government has rejected claims it advised the City of Perth that people attending its Australia Day fireworks event would need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.The council says it simply followed WA government health advicePerth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas announced last week

The council said the original decision to apply the double vaccination requirement was based on health advice provided to them by the state government."We never suggested that, that was the City of Perth," he told reporters this morning.When announcing the Skyworks show would return after being cancelled in 2021, Mr Zempilas said 80 "COVID marshals" would roam the northern banks of the Swan River as crowds gathered to watch the fireworks.

Mark McGowan says his government never suggested people who attend Wednesday's fireworks show needed to be vaccinated.

 

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