{"id":11199,"date":"2021-04-29T02:40:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11199"},"modified":"2021-04-29T02:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:40:44","slug":"australia-must-back-vaccine-patent-waiver-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/australia-must-back-vaccine-patent-waiver-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia must back vaccine patent waiver: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have reiterated their calls for Australia to support a global vaccine patent waiver, supported by more than 100 countries, ahead of a critical World Trade Organization council meeting on Friday.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, International Aid and Development spokesperson, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThis is a matter of global justice and responsibility. It is morally bankrupt for Australia to give anything other than full-throated support for the patent waiver.<br \/>\n&#8220;Rich, western countries banding together to hoard vaccines and deny them to poorer countries where thousands are dying daily is white supremacy, plain and simple.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s well overdue for the government to come out with a clear position in support of the waiver.<br \/>\n\u201cThe lives and health of billions of people matter far more than the profits of big pharmaceutical companies.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens stand with the hundreds of Australian health professionals who have this week come out in support of the patent waiver.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Rachel Siewert, Health spokesperson, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe Australian Government is enabling vaccine apartheid in not supporting a proposal to the World Trade Organisation to waive intellectual property rights to allow Covid-19 vaccine production to be rolled out and made accessible and affordable to everyone in the global community.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Australian Government has to act immediately on this issue, they have been dragging their feet far too long on it.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Government needs to play a role in ensuring big pharma moves to temporarily waive intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines to facilitate universal access.<br \/>\n&#8220;Covid-19 vaccines should be seen as a public good, not a commodity.<br \/>\n&#8220;Australia has a global responsibility to ensure lower GDP nations get adequate and timely access to vaccines.<br \/>\n&#8220;It\u2019s very clear that none of us are safe, until we are all safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have reiterated their calls for Australia to support a global vaccine patent waiver, supported by more than 100 countries, ahead of a critical World Trade Organization council meeting on Friday. Senator Mehreen Faruqi, International Aid and Development spokesperson, said: \u201cThis is a matter of global justice and responsibility. It is morally bankrupt for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/australia-must-back-vaccine-patent-waiver-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australia must back vaccine patent waiver: Greens&#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-11199","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\/11199","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=11199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}