{"id":12354,"date":"2021-08-03T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2021-08-03T14:10:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:10:50","slug":"a-plan-to-vaccinate-australians-and-support-our-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/03\/a-plan-to-vaccinate-australians-and-support-our-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"A plan to vaccinate Australians and support our economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Labor is calling on the Morrison Government to roll up its sleeves in the race to vaccinate the nation and provide a one-off $300 payment to every fully-vaccinated Australian.<br \/>\nThis support would be a further incentive for Australians to be fully vaccinated and would deliver a much-needed shot in the arm for businesses and workers struggling from lockdowns made necessary by the Morrison Government\u2019s failures with the vaccine rollout.<br \/>\nVaccinations are a race Australians can no longer afford to lose.<br \/>\nThe Morrison Government must make vaccines easily accessible to meet their target to vaccinate 80 per cent of adults.<br \/>\nThe faster this is achieved, the faster the recovery as we emerge from lockdowns that are bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars a day from the nation\u2019s finances.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why Labor is proposing a $300 payment to every Australian citizen and resident who is fully vaccinated by 1 December.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/national-plan-to-transition-australias-national-covid-19-response-30-july-2021.pdf\">National Plan to transition Australia\u2019s National COVID-19 Response<\/a>\u00a0released last Friday included measures \u201cencouraging uptake through incentives\u201d under Phase B. We think this should be a priority.<br \/>\nThese payments will deliver significant cash stimulus for businesses who have paid the price for Scott Morrison\u2019s failures on vaccines and quarantine for the past eighteen months.<br \/>\nThe Government has guaranteed that Australia will have more than enough vaccines to meet the 80 per cent target by 1 December.<br \/>\nWhen Australia\u2019s COVID response relied on Australians doing the right thing, our country was leading the world.<br \/>\nNow that Australians are relying on Scott Morrison to do his job and rollout the vaccines, we are coming last in the developed world.<br \/>\nScott Morrison had two jobs this year, rolling out vaccines and fixing Australia\u2019s quarantine system.<br \/>\nWhile the Prime Minister continues to shirk responsibility, Labor will continue to propose constructive solutions to protect the health of Australians and the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Labor is calling on the Morrison Government to roll up its sleeves in the race to vaccinate the nation and provide a one-off $300 payment to every fully-vaccinated Australian. This support would be a further incentive for Australians to be fully vaccinated and would deliver a much-needed shot in the arm for businesses and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/03\/a-plan-to-vaccinate-australians-and-support-our-economy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A plan to vaccinate Australians and support our economy&#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-12354","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\/12354","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=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}