{"id":10890,"date":"2021-03-31T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10890"},"modified":"2021-03-31T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T01:06:07","slug":"queensland-pays-the-price-for-morrisons-flawed-vaccine-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/31\/queensland-pays-the-price-for-morrisons-flawed-vaccine-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland pays the price for Morrison\u2019s flawed vaccine rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have laid the blame for Brisbane\u2019s three-day COVID lockdown at the Morrison government\u2019s door, saying its failure to ensure all frontline healthcare workers are vaccinated has triggered a necessary public health response that will damage already struggling businesses and force more workers into unemployment.<br \/>\nThe more than 130,000 people currently receiving JobSeeker in Brisbane will have their safety net slashed to below the poverty line on Thursday after the Coalition and Labor refused to support the Greens\u2019 proposal for an $80 a day payment.<br \/>\n<strong>Queensland Senator and Greens leader in the Senate Larissa Waters said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe people of Brisbane and Queensland can thank the Morrison government for this lockdown.<br \/>\n\u201cThe PM promised us that four million Australians would be vaccinated by early April. But with two days until April less than 15% of that number &#8211; 550,000 people &#8211; have received a dose. In Queensland that number is only 65,000.<br \/>\n\u201cThe PM must explain why there are still unvaccinated frontline healthcare workers treating COVID patients in Queensland hospitals.<br \/>\n\u201cNot only has this government failed the people of Queensland and Australia with its flawed vaccine rollout, it\u2019s abandoned businesses and workers by pulling away the safety nets that have allowed hundreds of thousands to remain employed and kept millions above the poverty line.<br \/>\n\u201cBy ending JobKeeper the government consigned 150,000 to unemployment nationally, right at the time when the JobSeeker unemployment benefit is being slashed to $43.57 a day. The Brisbane lockdown will guarantee that more people will be forced out of work and into poverty.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s unconscionable that this government can leave thousands of businesses and millions of workers to fend for themselves knowing full well that their failure to bring COVID under control leaves them vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have laid the blame for Brisbane\u2019s three-day COVID lockdown at the Morrison government\u2019s door, saying its failure to ensure all frontline healthcare workers are vaccinated has triggered a necessary public health response that will damage already struggling businesses and force more workers into unemployment. The more than 130,000 people currently receiving JobSeeker in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/31\/queensland-pays-the-price-for-morrisons-flawed-vaccine-rollout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Queensland pays the price for Morrison\u2019s flawed vaccine rollout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}