Wednesday,19 June 2024


Adjournment

COVID-19 vaccination


David LIMBRICK

COVID-19 vaccination

Despite this, Victoria maintained the general worker mandates for months, despite the vaccination rate being over 95 per cent and many people having immunity from a previous infection. Worse, though, for healthcare workers this has persisted for years – all the way into 2024. Western Australia and Queensland dropped the vaccine mandates for healthcare workers last year. New South Wales announced last month that they were scrapping them, and South Australia announced a couple of months ago that they were also scrapping them. In Victoria we have had serious issues with the healthcare workforce while still preventing trained, qualified and experienced people from going back to work. I am even aware of registered nurses travelling interstate just to work. Minister, this has gone on long enough. It is time to scrap the COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and let people get back to work.