Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you to those residents getting tested to shield us against COVID-19 and, more critically, those who are making sure they're vaccinated. Locally, the testing centre run by 'Sandy' Hospital and its ambulatory care centre and Brighton Golf Course have conducted an incredible 120,000 COVID-19 tests over the past year. Led by Amanda Murphy, David Osman and Dr Vanessa Thompson, SACC's walk-through sites and pop-up clinics have made testing more responsive to the outbreaks where they've occurred and accessible to residents locally. Now their operations team, led by Helen Kenny, Britt Crowley, Emily Kate Daly and Daniel Chechina, are delivering vaccines, having put 38,000 jabs into people's arms since June.

Thank you to the team for your efforts and to the whole team at the 'Sandy' Hospital for being at the front-line dispensary of vaccines with local GP clinics and pharmacies. As reality has set in, everyone plays a critical role in ensuring jabs get into arms. Residents carry the burden and responsibility to make sure that they get a COVID vaccine, so they have the armoury to confront a post-COVID-zero future. We give thanks to those who have, to those who will and to those who are helping them do so.