Scientists and government pushing for ways to make mRNA vaccines here Normal text size Advertisement The federal government is working with the biotech industry on ways to establish large-scale mRNA vaccine manufacturing in Australia as a group of senior scientists work on a parallel plan to enable local production of the cutting-edge jabs. The mRNA coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna yielded remarkably strong results in clinical trials and are expected to be much easier to reconfigured to cover new viral variants than more conventional inoculations such as AstraZeneca’s, which is being made in Australia by CSL. Harry Al-Wassiti (L) and Colin Pouton are working on a COVID-19 vaccine at Monash University.