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Counsel for the health minister, Craig Lenehan, has begun his case defending the India travel ban. First, a bit of housekeeping, the commonwealth will not challenge the plaintiff’s standing to bring the case.
Lenehan describes the Biosecurity Act as containing a “commonwealth legislative bulldozer”, in that it explicitly clears the field and overrides state and territory laws dealing with human rights, and therefore operates with “paramount force”.
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Why don’t we see the figures and breakdown between the vaccines on the second doses?
Greg Hunt:
They are discussions for national cabinet. But think of it like this: the AstraZeneca vaccine so far is roughly two-thirds of those administered – 66%; and Pfizer is about 34%.
AstraZeneca has not yet entered the second dose phase yet, other than a few individuals who for their own personal circumstances have had to do that.
