CHIEF Minister Andrew Barr invited Canberrans in the vaccination queue to bring forward their bookings following 19,500 new Pfizer doses becoming available at ACT government clinics.
Speaking at this morning’s (September 11) covid press briefing, he also said the national availability of 10 million Moderna vaccine doses meant the ACT would expect to receive 167,000 doses, which would be available in October and November through pharmacies.
Of current vaccinations he said the ACT led the nation with 95 per cent of all Canberrans over the age of 60 having had at least one dose.
And with 70,000 booked for vaccination at ACT government clinics, he said it was a good sign that 75 per cent of people over the age of 16 had had their first dose.
He said he had “great confidence” the ACT would exceed the national targets and that a high-rate Canberra meant a safer Canberra.
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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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