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11.24pm BST

One of the education unions in NSW has raised concerns at the state fast-tracking the re-opening plan.

The Independent Education Union’s acting NSW secretary, Carol Matthews was on Sunrise earlier, and questioned whether school buildings will be properly ventilated by next month:

Look, will we are quite disappointed about the lack of consultation about the changes.

There was no consultation, certainly with the union for the non- government sector, and I don’t know whether our employers were consulted. I suspect they weren’t.

11.08pm BST

Linda Burney, shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, was on RN Breakfast this morning, and said she thinks the reason the number of fully vaccinated First Australians lags so far behind the broader population was due to a “lack of political will.”

There is a lack of political will. I can’t put it down to anything else.

The gap is widening in every single jurisdiction, despite the fact that Aboriginal people were supposed to be a priority in the vaccination rollout.

I am so sick of the Federal Government using vaccine hesitancy as the reason for this. That is just patently wrong.

Vaccine hesitancy requires a response and if it is the case in some places then the messaging is the important thing, the way things are communicated.

General Frewen stated 2 or 3 weeks ago that there’d be a vaccination push in 30 communities. We’ve heard nothing since about how that’s going or whether it’s started... What has happened to that program?

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source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/sep/30/australia-covid-queensland-victoria-act-sydney-gladys-berejiklian-daniel-andrews-lockdown-nrl-football-league-vaccination