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Prime minister names senior army officer to head vaccination taskforce after national cabinet and likens rollout to turning back asylum seeker boats

The federal government has some clear responsibilities in dealing with the pandemic. Its lapses in aged care homes are plain to see, but who is accountable?

People under 50 asking for and getting AstraZeneca vaccine as older Australians hang back Josh Taylor Millennials are turning up to vaccine hubs to get the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine not being taken up by those over 50, as demand at Australia’s mass vaccination centres has not been as high as expected. A nurse at a Victorian vaccination hub who the Guardian spoke to earlier this week said she had delivered just one shot in an eight-hour shift. It was so slow staff had begun ...

Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 22.13 EDT Women are abandoning the Morrison government in the wake of parliament’s #MeToo moment, with the latest Guardian Essential poll showing fewer than one in three giving their primary vote to the Coalition. In mid-January the female primary vote peaked at 37% for the Coalition compared with 33% for Labor but, after months of damaging revelations about the government’s attitude towards women triggered by the mishandling of Brittany Higgins’ rape alle...

On Friday Morrison characterised calls for an independent inquiry as “the rule of the mob” and accused those calling to test the allegations against Porter of “undermining the principles of the rule of law”. Asked about the need for an inquiry, Morrison replied: “No, I don’t accept this proposition that any Australian should be subject to a rule of law that is different to anyone else. “There is the presumption of innocence. I believe in the presumption of inn...