Roll out the lotto barrel to hit vaccination target
The national cabinet’s properly fleshed-out plan to get 80 per cent of Australians vaccinated should include a national lottery to overcome vaccine hesitancy.
Good leaders understand the pitfalls of prioritising the urgent over the important. The national cabinet should clear its agenda on Friday to focus on what is truly important: a properly fleshed-out plan on how we get back to an Australia with open borders and no lockdowns.
We all know vaccines are the route to “living with” rather than “being overwhelmed by” COVID-19. With Australia’s rollout lagging dismally behind other advanced nations, we need a plan with meat on the bones that commits governments to targets, ensures supply promises are met, improves logistics and messaging, and announces the sequence for reopening borders.
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Danielle Wood is the chairwoman of the Productivity Commission.
Will Mackey is with the health program at Grattan Institute.
