Wilcannia Covid crisis: governments sidestep responsibility as response to outbreak labelled ‘a joke’

Peak body for NSW Aboriginal health services said both NSW and Federal governments’ response to the western NSW outbreak was ‘too little too late’

The New South Wales government has refused to take responsibility for what it admits is the “disappointing” vaccine rollout in Aboriginal communities in the state’s west, despite being warned last year of a potential catastrophe in the Covid-hit town of Wilcannia, as reported by Guardian Australia in an exclusive yesterday.

NSW health minister, Brad Hazzard, said the vaccination rollout to Aboriginal communities has been challenging, but that it was a federal government responsibility.

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