This week\u2019s political football of mandatory vaccinations is a classic case of misdirection by the Federal Government, United Workers Union said today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Federal Government\u2019s approach this week has been a disgraceful political cook-up to shift blame onto workers,\u201d United Workers Union Aged Care Director Carolyn Smith said today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vaccine rollout in Australia has been a joke. Aged care workers and residents have been put in harm\u2019s way by the Federal Government\u2019s inability to effectively provide access to the lifesaving vaccine.<\/p>\n
\u201cScott Morrison and Greg Hunt have tried to use the issue of mandatory vaccination as a smokescreen for their own failure in providing vaccines to aged care workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of addressing the underlying problem of the ineffective vaccine rollout, Morrison and Hunt have tried to pin the blame for the crisis in aged care on workers. In a base political move, they have chosen to create a sideshow to distract from the disaster that has been the aged care vaccine rollout.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis political game-playing on aged care vaccinations should be exposed for the time-sucking, attention-deflecting ploy it actually is.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s happened today shows that politicians shouldn\u2019t mess with public health advice.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll through the pandemic, United Workers Union has advocated for following the advice of public health professionals.<\/p>\n
\u201cMorrison should leave health advice to the experts, and focus on doing his job \u2013 protecting Australian communities from infection by providing access to the vaccine.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a week of revelations, it is now clear:<\/p>\n