Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

In relation to those around western New South Wales, in particular the Wilcannia region, we've been working closely with state and territory governments and Aboriginal controlled community health services to ensure the needs of Indigenous community planning and delivery, including through this outbreak of COVID and particularly as it relates to working through the vaccination program.

Indeed, we know that there are particular challenges there, and it is in response to those challenges that we have ensured additional resources have been provided to Wilcannia to help support that community and those across western New South Wales. The Commonwealth Department of Health has stood up an incident management team to coordinate the Commonwealth response, including representatives of the NIAA— (Time expired)