Advocates plea for a family detained on Christmas Island to come to Australia after the youngest daughter medically evacuated to Perth
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A former Bunnings Warehouse on the NSW north coast will be converted over the next six weeks into the state’s second Covid-19 vaccination hub.
The centre, at Belmont in Lake Macquarie, is expected to be ready to administer up to 20,000 jabs a week from mid-July.
The hub is the second for NSW, which already has a centre at Homebush in Sydney’s west delivering up to 5000 injections a day, reports AAP.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian made the announcement in a statement this morning:
We are planning to replicate that model in the Hunter region, so we can quickly and safely vaccinate as many people as possible across NSW.
Labor Senator Kristina Keneally, who visited the Biloela family on Christmas Island this year, has fronted media this morning calling on the government to “bring them home”.
She spoke to ABC News Breakfast just before:
The family’s lawyers have put information in front of the minister about [older daughter] Kopika and Tharnicaa’s ongoing physical and mental health impacts of detention.
And this latest emergency – this acute medical emergency – is unfortunately just a most recent example of the ongoing impacts that detention is having on these two little Australian-born girls.
All of this heartbreak for this family. The last thing they need right now is to be separated from one another and the last thing of course is this little girl, Tharnicaa, needs, is this type of medical emergency.
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