THE ACT will have a “nation-leading vaccine program”, Chief Minister Andrew Barr vowed at today’s (August 29) covid press briefing, ahead of Friday’s opening of a government-led mass vaccination centre at the AIS Area.
He said the centre would process 24,000 Pfizer vaccinations a week.
There had been more than 31,000 vaccines administered in Canberra over the past seven days, including 14,000 first doses.
The ACT’s total number of vaccine doses delivered into arms stood at 233,621 of which 65 per cent were for eligible people 16 and over (and 61.5 per cent of 12 and over).
There were 141,791 Canberrans full vaccinated, which equalled 41.2 per cent of eligible people 16 and above (and 39 per cent of 12 and above).
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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