Push for vaccinated Aussies to get $300 cash
Labor leader Anthony Albanese will call for the Federal Government to offer a one-off cash payment to every Aussie who gets fully vaccinated, including children. VOTE IN THE POLL
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A $300 one-off cash payment for every Aussie fully vaccinated by December 1 should be made as an incentive to speed up the rollout, under a proposal from Opposition leader Anthony Albanese.
The plan would cost $6 billion, with the cash to go to anyone who has received a vaccine – including children.
Mr Albanese will today call for the Morrison Government to offer the cash incentive, and will promise that if he is in the Lodge before December 1 a Labor Government will deliver on the commitment.
“This support would be a further incentive for Australians to be fully vaccinated and would deliver a much-needed shot in the arm for businesses and workers struggling from lockdowns made necessary by the Morrison Government’s failures with the vaccine rollout,” Mr Albanese said.
“Vaccinations are a race Australians can no longer afford to lose.”
The payments go too all Australians vaccinated by December 1, including those already jabbed, and act as an economic stimulus as well as a health measure.
“These payments will deliver significant cash stimulus for businesses who have paid the price for Scott Morrison’s failures on vaccines and quarantine for the past eighteen months,” Mr Albanese said.
“The Government has guaranteed that Australia will have more than enough vaccines to meet the 80 per cent target by December 1.”
Details for how cash payments would be paid out to children under the age of 18 are yet to be determined.
The Federal Government has been reluctant to offer incentives for vaccinations so far, arguing the incentive is protecting yourself and your family from the deadly virus.
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