Young Australians frustrated they can’t get vaccination appointments — even for AstraZeneca

The Project’s Tommy Little has unleashed on Australia’s vaccination program, saying he’s been turned away when he’s tried to get the jab himself.

Young people have voiced their frustration at not being able to get vaccination appointments despite being willing to get the AstraZeneca jab.

Comedian Tommy Little shared his own experience on The Project on Sunday night of being turned away from vaccination hubs in Victoria.

“Then I see ads on TV – the government telling us to get vaccinated and it makes my blood boil because it is their fault we don’t have the vaccine,” Little said.

“I feel really sorry for young people at the moment because I feel like the government is basically gaslighting them.

“They keep pushing them to get vaccinated and they don’t have a safe vaccine — they don’t have enough of it to go around.

“You are spending millions of dollars advertising for a product you don’t have.”

Little revealed he’d been turned away after attempting to get himself vaccinated. “I go home, sit on my couch, and see ads saying ‘go out and get vaccinated’. I’m like, what? We’re trying!”

The show also heard from Rupert Condon, 26, who said he had been trying to get vaccinated for weeks in Melbourne.

The man told the panel he had received a tip-off from a friend that a vaccination hub in the Sandown area was quiet so he drove there with a friend during his lunch hour.

“No-one was there,” he said.

They were quickly told they had to book online due to a policy change, even though the website said walk-ins were available.

He said they tried to do this but the website crashed after multiple attempts, then they were told to give the Department of Health and Human Services Victoria a call but gave up after 25 minutes on hold.

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Tommy Little on The Project.

Later a senior member of staff came out of the hub to tell them there would be a minimum four to six week wait.

“Our question was, you have an empty hub here today, that’s no-one is in and out, surely you can find two spots for two young guys, 26 and 28 years old to get the jab?” Condon said.

“To say the least, it was quite frustrating.”

He said young people wanted the jab because they were sick of lockdowns, with Melbourne now in it’s sixth shutdown.

“If you do a pub test these days in our age bracket, we all want to get vaccinated,” he said.

“We’re at the age that we want to be out socialising, having a beer on a Saturday night, enjoying ourselves, going to the footy.”

Victoria announced on Sunday it would expand access to the Astra Zeneca jab for young people so that nine of 50 state clinics would offer the Astra Zeneca vaccine to 18 to 39-year-olds from Monday.

Condon said he had finally been able to book an appointment about on Sunday, about an hour before appearing on the show, for early September.

He said he’d seen articles on the waiting list being four to six weeks.

“That shows that people in our age bracket want to be vaccinated,” he said.

“If we don’t we will be living with these times for the next two or three years … we’re going to be in and out of lockdowns, we are just over it.”