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When she was at her lowest, before becoming the sort of person who has the ear and admiration of premiers and governors, Emma Lee worked at a petrol station. It was 2011. She was 38. Sheâd âcrashed and burnedâ, as she describes it, losing her first marriage, her money, her mojo. After a successful career as an archaeologist, and a manager at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, her whole world had shrunk to the grey concrete forecourt at Woolworths Caltex in her home town of Wynyard, on Tasmaniaâs north-west coast. For 18 months she healed, slowly rebuilding herself and, from behind the kiosk counter, finding the inspiration for a new approach to Aboriginal rights â a method that would, only four years later, start to bear fruit with then Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman.
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Bosses canât force COVID-19 jab, but âhave one for Australiaâ
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The first coronavirus vaccines will be rolled out on Monday, but bosses are being told they canât force employees to get a jab except in very limited circumstances.
Epidemiologist Marylouise McLaws said allowing unvaccinated workers in aged care facilities failed on morality grounds, and whether it was compulsory or not, people should âhave a jab for Australiaâ.
The first vaccinations will target frontline health and quarantine workers and the aged care sector.Â
Prime Minister Scott Morrison hinted international borders could reopen once Australiaâs vaccination program is completed â earlier than the 2022 date previously flagged by the government.