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Canstruct International, the Brisbane company and Liberal party donor running Australia’s offshore processing regime on Nauru, has won another uncontested contract extension – $180m over six months – bringing its total revenue from island contracts over the past five years to more than $1.5bn.
There are 108 people held on Nauru under Australia’s offshore processing regime. It costs Australian taxpayers more than $8,800 every day for each person held on the island, or $3.2m a person each year.
Related: Liberal party donor’s revenue from uncontested contracts for offshore processing rises to $1.5bn
Poor old Michael Kidd. It looks as though Greg Hunt has declined to go on ABC News Breakfast so now the deputy chief medical officer is bearing the brunt of host Michael Rowland’s robust questioning.
Rowland:
Why on earth are 57% of aged care workers yet to receive a single dose of vaccine, as we head towards the end of July?
As you know, the national cabinet has decided that it would be mandatory for workers in aged care facilities to be vaccinated by the end of September.
Now plans are in place to make sure they’ll be vaccinated by the end of September.
Fifty-seven per cent of aged care workers, 1a people, the most vulnerable, given what happened in aged care in Victoria last year, are not vaccinated, with at least one dose now. How can we get to that mid-September deadline?
Look, I’m very confident we’re going to achieve that deadline. We’re seeing extraordinary results in many parts of the country, and people lining up to get their vaccines. Prioritisation for people working in aged care to get their vaccines as well.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/jul/21/australia-covid-live-sydney-gladys-berejiklian-lockdown-victoria-south-australia
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