Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are amongst the priority groups to receive the COVID-19 vaccinations as the federal government gets to work on a mammoth roll out.
The first priority group will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) last month, with people needing two does taken 21 days apart to be protected.
The AstraZenaca vaccine was approved just days ago by the TGA and priority groups can expect the jab in a few weeks - with two doses given around one month to three months apart in order for it to be most effective.
For Ngunnawal Elder, Violet Sheridan, the height of the coronavirus pandemic was a frightening time - especially while caring full time for her school-aged grandchildren.
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A broad field of candidates are in the running for the 2021 Australian of the Year Awards.
Thirty-three Australians have been listed as finalists across four award categories: Australian of the Year, Senior Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year and Australia’s Local Hero.
National Australia Day Council chief executive Karlie Brand said following a year of bushfires and the coronavirus pandemic, the finalists showcased the extraordinary ways Australians responded amid times of crises. The past year has been particularly challenging and many of the finalists have shown incredible leadership or stepped up to help in extraordinary ways, she said.
How many times would we have to hear about “connectivity’’, when what people really were was “connected”?
How many times would we have to wish that people who said “about this space’’ or “in this space’’ would be sent to outer space?
Above all, what was the point of the word “point” being added to everything? A public service information area at Flinders St Station isn’t a “Help point”, it’s just “Help” . A “touch point” is a touch screen. My 87-year-old mother doesn’t use a “single point ” walking cane: she’s always used a walking stick.
But a few months into 2020, a once-in-a-hundred-year health crisis came long in the form of COVID-19 and provided a tonic for western society’s nonsense talk ailment.