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‘Politics rules’: Australia’s international travel ban not based on science, health experts say Melissa Davey © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Linh Pham/Getty Images Australia’s international travel ban is based on politics and not science, according to health experts who say there are a number of countries Australia could safely resume travel with this year. On Sunday the treasurer Josh Frydenberg told SBS News that the budget expectation is that international ...

Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 02.31 EDT Australia’s international travel ban is based on politics and not science, according to health experts who say there are a number of countries Australia could safely resume travel with this year. On Sunday the treasurer Josh Frydenberg told SBS News that the budget expectation is that international travel will begin in 2022, with further detail expected when the budget is released on Tuesday. Meanwhile the prime minister Scott Morrison posted on F...

“We certainly can’t turn a blind eye to influenza this year.”

Australian vaccine experts felt compelled to make AstraZeneca call We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Professor Allen Cheng, the co-chair of the expert advisory group behind the decision, said there was no doubt the new advice released late on Thursday would be a blow to confidence in Australia’s vaccine rollout, already beset by delays. Professor Allen Cheng said the decision to name Pfizer as the pr...

The long shot: delays, uncertainty and confusion in Australia’s vaccine rollout We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement At 7.20pm on Thursday, a stony-faced Prime Minister walked into the blue room at Parliament House flanked by the Health Minister and the country’s top health officials. AstraZeneca, long touted as the workhorse of the vaccine rollout, was no longer the preferred choice for those aged...

“We were supposed to get, and contracted to get, 3.8 million AstraZeneca vaccines in these early weeks. We’ve got way less than that – 700,000,” he said. “We said many, many months ago, in fact about a month ago in particular, that we would hope to get in those early phases to around 80,000 a week. Now, we are getting up to those levels now as we conclude our third week.” Advertisement Opposition health spokesman Mark Butler said the government’s vaccination s...

Premium Content Subscriber only A team of Rockhampton researchers has completed an international research project on COVID-19 outbreaks in residential aged care facilities. The research was published in the Lancet Group Open access journal EClinicalMedicine, among the worlds oldest and best-known general medical journals. CQ Healths Public Health and Clinical Research director Professor Gulam Khandaker led the research team that went through more than 5000 documents. It identified 49 studie...

Professor Kristine Macartney, who's the Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, said biotechnology company CSL's production of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Australia puts the country "in good shape".

Australia's safety monitoring system for COVID-19 vaccines is operating and weekly reports will be published from this Wednesday. The Therapeutic Goods...

Event description Hosted by Michael Rowland, this Q&A event will see our experts tackle your questions around the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia. About this Event What is mRNA? Why are there two vaccines on offer? What’s the difference? What does herd immunity mean? How long will the rollout take? Are the vaccines safe? As Australia begins to rollout the COVID-19 vaccine, we are faced with an abundance of new information, technical terminology, and vaccine myths and misinform...