By One Nation MP for Mirani Stephen Andrew
The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, appears hell-bent on rolling out “Vaccine Certificates” (aka Passports) in Australia, by no later than October this year.
During a recent press conference, the PM said grandly that all his world leader mates at the G7 had agreed with him, that the world needed a vaccine passport system rolled out as soon as possible.
The PM said vaccination certificates would “facilitate” people being able to travel in and out of the country – with the clear inference being that those who WEREN’T vaccinated, wouldn’t be travelling anywhere – not now and not ever, not if our PM has any say in the matter.
Oh but don’t worry, Scomo said with his trademark smirk, whether people decide to get vaccinated or not will be completely up to them – entirely “voluntary”. Yeah right mate.
The PM also wants the certificates to have a much wider application within Australia, but said the domestic use of passports will need to be legislated through State parliaments.
“Only the state governments can place restrictions on people entering a venue, entering a place of work, things like this” he explained to the press, who naturally all wanted them introduced yesterday, if possible.
The Federal Government’s digital vaccine certificate system is already in place, with digital certificates generated by people’s MyGov account when someone receives their second shot.
The MyGov account is updated with information from the Australian Immunisation Register.
The PM said he hopes the certificate will be available through digital apps such as Apple Wallet within a matter of weeks.
All he needs is for the States to agree. NO doubt there will be some serious financial deals done behind the scenes to ‘facilitate’ this over the coming weeks?