Senate debates

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Indigenous Health

2:20 pm

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

[by video link] I continue to urge and encourage all Australians—including Indigenous Australians, Torres Strait Islanders and, indeed, all parts of our population—to respond and to seize the earliest opportunities to be vaccinated. We're seeing amazing growth in Australia in the vaccine program. We have seen that growth from four weeks ago, when 42 per cent of the population had had a first dose, to now nearly 59 per cent of the Australian population having had a first dose. We are working—

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