News chief Michael Miller urges bosses to champion the rollout
News Corp Australasia boss Michael Miller has penned an open letter to the country’s business leaders, calling on them to champion the vaccination rollout.
News Corp Australasia boss Michael Miller has penned an open letter to the country’s business leaders and owners, calling on them to champion the vaccination rollout as part of an urgent nationwide effort to “get Australia working again”.
Mr Miller, the media group’s executive chairman, warned that Australia was “falling behind”, with the country lacking a “clear path forward”.
“We have to urgently rediscover our Australian sense of purpose and unity, and show the world what a fully vaccinated, fully functioning nation can achieve,” he wrote in the letter.
“People who have already endured so much disruption and upheaval do not deserve to be kept in a state of isolation and uncertainty without a clear path forward. They, and the organisations they are part of, the schools they attend, the companies they work for, have to be able to get back to work as quickly as possible.
“Business is crucial to this success. The engine room of the economy cannot be stuck in suspended animation for a moment longer than necessary.”
Mr Miller said News Corp, publisher of The Australian, was actively encouraging and helping all its staff to get vaccinated as quickly as possible, adding: “We encourage all other businesses regardless of size or sector to take the same approach.
“We must all champion the vaccination rollout and participate in it every way we can. And when our people are as protected as possible they must be able to get back to full operations. In every sense of the phrase, currently, Australia is not working.”
He called on state and national leaders to commit to jab targets and a timetable that “will allow all Australians to plan for life in a new normal state of affairs”. And he challenged businesses “big and small” to share their strategies and plans “for how they individually, and the nation collectively, can get back to full operations as quickly as possible”.
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