Thursday: Western Australian regions have lowest Covid vaccination rates. Plus: camera discovery reveals climber’s last images before fatal avalanche
Good morning. WA’s premier has locked horns with his federal counterparts, Texas has ushered in radical new abortion legislation, and Angus Taylor is facing fresh scrutiny over the allocation of federal grant funding.
Covid vaccination rates among Indigenous Australians are lagging badly, with new figures showing that across large swathes of Western Australia less than 10% of Aboriginal adults are fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, WA premier Mark McGowan has accused the Morrison government of being “on [a] mission to bring Covid into Western Australia”, responding angrily to a warning from the federal attorney general, Michaelia Cash, that the legal basis for state border closures would diminish as vaccination rates increased. Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, has suggested restrictions could ease in September as the state approaches 70% vaccination rates, despite a continued uptick in new cases in both Victoria and New South Wales.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/02/morning-mail-indigenous-vaccination-rates-lag-texas-abortion-ban-hospital-pressure
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