Brisbane quarantine hub receives green light
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Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles has welcomed the news that the proposed quarantine site on Commonwealth land near Brisbane Airport has been deemed a viable option, adding that it must be “built as soon as possible.”
According to a feasibility study, the Damascus Barracks site at Pinkenba, about eight kilometres northeast of the city’s CBD, is a suitable option for a new dedicated quarantine site, but any facility would not open until early next year.
After months of agitation by Queensland for a regional facility near Toowoomba, the federal government floated the site as its preferred location for a quarantine hub in late June.
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Labor s cash for jabs proposal labelled insulting by the federal government
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The federal government should give $300 to every fully vaccinated Australian citizen and resident, Labor says.
The cash boost would drive vaccination rates towards the nation’s new reopening targets, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said.
The Coalition has already dismissed the $6 billion proposal.
The federal government should hand $300 to every Australian and resident who is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to drive vaccine take-up, the Labor Party says.
In a Tuesday announcement, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said offering broad financial incentives to immunised Australians before December 1 would combat vaccine hesitancy and boost jab rates nationwide.
If every eligible Australian adult was vaccinated before December 1, the proposed scheme would cost in the vicinity of $6 billion.