{"id":11589,"date":"2021-05-28T05:32:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T05:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11589"},"modified":"2021-05-28T05:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T05:32:57","slug":"labors-plan-to-beat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/labors-plan-to-beat-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor's Plan to Beat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another COVID-19 outbreak from hotel quarantine has plunged a state into lockdown. Yet another COVID-19 outbreak from hotel quarantine has closed state borders.
\nThe risk to the health and livelihood of Australians has not gone away, and the Morrison Government must get their act together and treat this pandemic with the urgency it deserves.
\nBut because of their complacency, we\u2019ve seen another outbreak stem from hotel quarantine. If Scott Morrison had built a fit-for-purpose national quarantine system \u2013 a responsibility that sits squarely with the Prime Minister \u2013 then this outbreak would not have happened.
\nSome of the people at the centre of this current outbreak were eligible for the vaccine. If the Morrison Government hadn\u2019t botched our vaccine rollout, those people would have been vaccinated by now.
\nAustralians want a clear plan for the future \u2013 a plan that gives them clarity and certainty.
\nIt\u2019s now clear for everyone to see that Scott Morrison doesn\u2019t have a plan to beat COVID-19. But we do.
\nIf I were Prime Minister, an Albanese Labor Government would:<\/p>\n

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  1. Build new quarantine facilities and expand existing facilities in every state and territory<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 because it\u2019s time to end the blame game and be a true partner with the states and territories.<\/li>\n
  2. Fix the vaccine rollout and expand mobile and mass vaccination clinics<\/strong>\u00a0to get as many Australians vaccinated as quickly as possible. We would stop the excuses and get everyone who lives and works in aged or disability care vaccinated. We have the doses and we know where they are. There\u2019s simply no excuse for the delay.<\/li>\n
  3. Start a mass public information campaign to encourage people to get vaccinated<\/strong>, and start a process for considering incentives to achieve that aim.<\/li>\n
  4. Begin manufacturing mRNA vaccines, like Pfizer, right here in Australia.<\/strong>\u00a0This virus isn\u2019t going away and when it comes to beating it, we need to be able to stand on our own two feet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yet another COVID-19 outbreak from hotel quarantine has plunged a state into lockdown. Yet another COVID-19 outbreak from hotel quarantine has closed state borders. The risk to the health and livelihood of Australians has not gone away, and the Morrison Government must get their act together and treat this pandemic with the urgency it deserves. … Continue reading “Labor's Plan to Beat COVID-19”<\/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-11589","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\/11589","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=11589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}