NSW Parliament exempt from the jab, everyone else too bad

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NSW Parliament exempt from the jab, everyone else too bad



‘Democracy in NSW during this Delta outbreak has been put on ice.’ Gladys Berejiklian refuses to embrace mandatory vaccination in parliament, which has not sat since June. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
‘Democracy in NSW during this Delta outbreak has been put on ice.’ Gladys Berejiklian refuses to embrace mandatory vaccination in parliament, which has not sat since June. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

NSW Parliament exempt from the jab, everyone else too bad

 Vaccination will be compulsory for more than half of NSW’s public sector workers. But not for our parliament

Gladys Berejiklian’s government is not practicing what it preaches on mandatory Covid vaccines

More than half of New South Wales public sector employees – police, teachers and health workers – will require proof of vaccination to work in NSW.

But their boss, Gladys Berejiklian, has steadfastly refused to embrace mandatory vaccination in her own workplace: NSW parliament.

Instead, parliament has solved problems posed by Covid by not functioning at all.

The veritable old lady of Macquarie Street is a ghost ship – and has not sat since the agriculture minister, Adam Marshall, tested positive for Covid-19 on 23 June. Staff are working from home, and just a skeleton staff remains in the building.

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By Anne Davies

(Source: theguardian.com; September 8, 2021; https://tinyurl.com/yjm73pbr)