My advice to my Aussie friends, who may be currently watching or relying on ABC:
If you really want unbiased and all-encompassing world news, switch to SBS.
It's astounding to me that
@AlboMP
and
@Mark_Butler_MP
apparently refuse to communicate about when (or whether) Australians will have access to the latest Covid vaccines -- which are already available in numerous other countries. Do they not care at all about the 9th wave?
Hey health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
. I'm due for a covid vaccine booster. I'd like the vaccine that is available in >21 other countries, namely Novavax XBB. Have you even ordered it for Australia? Why all the secrecy, unless of course, you aren't doing your damn job.
When did a nursing education change so drastically in Australia, especially SA. I dated a trainee nurse. She lived, free of charge, in a nurses home attached to the Woodville hospital, and received a stipend. What happened????
Hey Australian health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
. You're in charge of ordering covid vaccines, no??
So, tell us -- when is the Novovax XBB vaccine going to be available?
Wow
@Mark_Butler_MP
, our useless health minister. The year is >1/3 over, and still not one, NOT ONE, Australian has had the Novavax XBB 1.5 vaccine. There are countries where this is the ONLY vaccine available.
What the hell are you doing? Saving billions for your ALP mates?
No word from
@Mark_Butler_MP
or
@AlboMP
as to when the newest Covid vaccines will be available in Australia. Or whether they've even been ordered. So much for Labor transparency -- it's a joke. And pure negligence on the part of our PM and health minister.
Please RT.
Hey health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
! When is Australia getting the Novavax XBB 1.5 vaccine? How about you get off your arse and actually do your job?
#auspol
@AlboMP
When you voted for the ALP and
@AlboMP
, did you imagine in your wildest dreams that they could cock-up their covid vaccine response more than the LNP?
Where's our Novavax XBB,
@Mark_Butler_MP
?
#auspol
Mr President
@realDonaldTrump
. You were at your brother's side and holding his hand when he passed. Then you wept.
No, wait. I have you confused with someone who actually gives a damn about other people. My mistake.
@sallymcmanus
All my friends in the US have been vaccinated, some months ago. All of my friends in Australia are still waiting. In Oz, the vaccine rollout has been bungled badly by the
@ScottMorrisonMP
govt.
My opinion, shared by a great many others, is that we are saddled with a health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
who has proven himself to be grossly incompetent when it comes to procuring covid vaccines. That Australia does not have access to Novavax XBB is inexcusable and deplorable.
@VictorianCHO
"Stay safe Victoria". Yes. Stay up to date. So where's Novavax, CHO? For those who are mRNA vax intolerant? Not all Victorians CAN stay up to date, if unable to take Pfizer or Moderna. Most can, but NOT ALL.
Do you think this is acceptable?
What is YOUR opinion on this issue?
Right now in Australia, I can get Pfizer XBB or Moderna XBB. Any suggestions as to which one is preferable?
Thanks to
@Mark_Butler_MP
, who passes himself off as Australia's health minister, these are the only choices. No Novavax.
Butler is useless. So is
@AlboMP
.
#auspol
@RonniSalt
I'd never call Uhlmann a journalist. In my opinion, he's an "opinion writer", whose "opinion" in most cases deserves no attention or respect.
For my Aussie followers:
Do you think
@AlboMP
or any of his cabinet actually reads the messages on their X accounts? I'm particularly interested in the silence of his so-called health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
-- he has a law degree, so maybe he can't read. I'd like to know.
Hey, health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
. It's been 6 months since my last Covid booster. Where on earth is my Novavax XX 1.5 vaccine? You know, the one the rest of the civilised one has access to? But not, due to your ineptitute, does Oz. The word "failure" doesn't do you justice.
Good grief! Novavax XBB has been shipped to 21 countries for use. Guess which 3rd world country isn't on the list, so-called health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
? AUSTRALIA.
So no updated XBB Novavax vaccines in the country
@Mark_Butler_MP
? Have you at least put an order in for those Australians who can't tolerate what's available?
Narrator: That's unlikely.
$368 billion for nuclear powered submarines, but Australia can't afford the latest Omicron XBB.1.5-adapted monovalent COVID-19 vaccine. Is that the size of it,
@AlboMP
and
@Mark_Butler_MP
?
Hey
@Mark_Butler_MP
, health minister. Is Australia now so poor that we can't afford to buy the Novavax XBB 1.5 vaccine until we've depleted supplies of old vaccines?
#auspol
@AlboMP
@JEChalmers
Hey
@AlboMP
. Have a discreet word with health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
, and order him to provide the newest Novavax XBB 1.5 covid vaccine. We're months behind other civilised countries. Anger is building in X-verse, and forces are gathering to oppose Butler's re-election.
Why does Australia have such a fawning MSM? (I'm talking about the bird shit liner papers -- Murdoch, Costello, smh, etc). Why are nobodies from the opposition getting so much press?
Time for a RC into Australia's press. I agree with
@MrKRudd
.
For my Aussie friends: It's sad to see what trouble we're in.
Fan tales are being discontinued. My advice, stock up whenever you see them in shops.
i mourn the loss of cobbers (remember them?) and chew chew bars.
It's time to take a stand, fellow lolly eaters. You with me?
When I was a kid, a jar of vegemite was never refrigerated and never spoilt. The perception was that the glass jar itself spoilt before the vegemite contents!
Where's the nearest country to Australia that is offering Novavax XBB covid vaccine?
If, as seems obvious
@Mark_Butler_MP
, you refuse to make it available in Oz, perhaps you could let people know how far they'd have to travel to get a jab that could save their lives.
Dear
@Mark_Butler_MP
, health minister for Australia
This is your daily reminder that your citizens are waiting with bated breath to hear when you're going to permit access to the Novavax XBB 1.5 covid vaccine.
Signed: Your ever increasingly pissed off fans
Please RT
@realDonaldTrump
You've been president for almost 4 years. This is YOUR America. Any "looting, arson, violence, and lawlessness" is a direct result of your "leadership".
@philmupp1
Where are Hugh Jackman, Guy Pierce, Hugo Weaving Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Toni Colette, Naomi Watts, Cate Blanchlett, Geoffrey Rush, etc etc in support of a Labor gov which will support the arts? Speak up or be complicit.
Soon we'll see travel companies offering cheap fares from Australia to countries offering the Novavax XBB vaccine. That's how pathetic and ineffectual our health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
is.
The ATGI is a group in health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
's department. How hard can it possibly be for him to be transparent about why it's taking so long for Novavax XBB to be approved? This has gone from the ridiculous to the absurd, and Butler along with it.
Hey Australian health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
-- where's our access to the newest Novavax XXB 1.5 covid vaccine? Do we have to fly to Poland to get it? What use are you?
Butler's electorate (Hindmarsh, SA), take notice. Like and RT. Let's get rid of him.
@AlboMP
#auspol
@ImpeachmentHour
What's a church? Definition? If I knew it was easy to bilk taxpayers out of money, I'd have started a church in the backseat of my car -- congregation of 2, but hell, it's the "Lord's" work. We could sing Bohemian Rhapsody -- that's religious, n'est-ce pas?
Are there any voters here who live in
@Mark_Butler_MP
's electorate of Hindmarsh?
Butler deserves to be kicked out in the next election. His performance as health minister has been abysmal.
Please repost.
How embarrassing and humiliating for Tony Abbott is that the single thing, the only thing, he'll ever be remembered for is as the subject of Julia Gillard's misogyny speech. That's it. Pathetic. What a legacy.
Hey so-called health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
! Are Australians ever going to have access to the newest Novavax XBB covid vaccine? Are you asleep at the switch?
@AlboMP
#auspol
I've had 3 vaccine shots (Australia). I've heard not a word about when a next shot is needed, recommended, advised. Don't we have a medical advisory board in this country? [sarcasm] And if so, are the members all mute?
Hey health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
! Do you have any intention of allowing Aussies access to the newest Novavax covid vaccines, or are you as utterly useless as you seem?
@AlboMP
#auspol
See this
@Mark_Butler_MP
? I bet your office is being inundated with calls/texts/emails asking you essentially "What the F^king hell is wrong with you?" Where's our Novavax XBB? " Does the ALP have no money to spend on essential health?
Today, I wrote to the TGA for the 5th time re Australians' access to the Novavax XBB.. Please, could everyone who wants it , do the same? IDK about where everyone is with their vx coverage, but me and my family are way overdue. And I'm so worried.
Dear
@Mark_Butler_MP
, health minister
This is your daily reminder that millions of Australians are waiting with bated breath to hear when you're condescendingly going to permit access to the Novavax XBB 1.5 covid vaccine.
Signed: Your pissed off fans
@Globalbiosec
@noplaceforsheep
The only alternative , should NSW fail to lockdown properly and bring this outbreak under control, will be for all other states to impose hard borders.
Does anyone here remember crystal radios? My parents' generation have fond memories of listening (with static) to BBC World Service, cricket from the UK etc.
PM
@AlboMP
. Why are we months behind other countries in having access to the newest Novavax XBB vaccine? We've asked
@Mark_Butler_MP
numerous times -- he doesn't answer. He's useless.
#auspol
@leselec27
@leighsales
Leigh Sales seems to have become more interested in being the story, rather than in elucidation, education, and revelation. It's sad. Very sad. And she apparently abhors any criticism.
Novavax application withdrawn, Moderna no longer available - WTH is happening in Aust's C-19 vax procurement/availability space?
In Feb 23 govt responded to Halton Report & promised
"to ensure Australians maintain optimal access to vaccines over time."
@Mon4Kooyong
pls help!
@2GB873
@cokeefe9
Good heavens. A would-be influential radio station hiding behind a nothing person. What courage. Here's what you pathetic people are missing.
Dan Andrews was ELECTED, time and again, to lead Victorians -- because they trusted him.
How are your ratings?
Dear
@Mark_Butler_MP
, health minister
This is yet another reminder that millions of Australians are waiting with bated breath to hear when you're condescendingly going to permit access to the Novavax XBB 1.5 covid vaccine.
Signed
Your loving fans
Hey health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
--- does it make you feel triumphant to be in charge of a health dept that is denying the newest Novavax vaccine to Australians --- a vaccine that has been for months available in the US, Canada, Germany, France, and... POLAND.
@AlboMP
#auspol
🧵So still no updated Novavax in Australia.
Available in the US for months. Canada. Germany. France...it is the ONLY vaccine offered in Poland.
Yet this was reported re mRNA vaccines.👇1/
I'm seriously considering flying to Hawaii to get Novavax XBB covid vaccine. I wonder if that might help spur our hapless health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
into doing his damn job.
@barriecassidy
The MSM in this country is disgraceful. I don't see any self-reflection that might lead to more curiosity. A major problem is that most of it is owned by RW outlets, like
#NewsCorp
, etc.
Health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
is either asleep on the job, or just doesn't give a 💩 about his covid vaccines responsibilities.
Where's our latest Novavax vaccine?
How many Aussies have to suffer because of your apathy & ignorance?
Hey
@Mark_Butler_MP
, health minister for ALL of Australia : When can ANY of Australia expect to have access the newest (now months old) Novavax XBB 1.5 vaccine? This month? This year? You're a hopeless bugger.
Hey health minister
@Mark_Butler_MP
. You have an X account, and you post on it. Why pretend that you don't see the posts that criticise your abysmal performance on Novavax XBB. You're worse than -- what's 'is name -- yeah, Greg Hunt.
@FinnianMchugh
@RonniSalt
@canberratimes
All he had to do was notice that no such "communication" was forthcoming. We have a GG who is negligent and out of touch. Time for a new one.
If current reports are accurate, my 2 x AZ, 6 months ago, are now ineffective. How effective will my Pfizer booster shot be? And, if at all, for how long?
Your PM (not mine)
@ScottMorrisonMP
is asleep at the switch.
Every journalist needs to ask Morrison:
How many booster vaccines do we have today?
Will you immediately follow the UK & US in shortening the booster period to 3 months? If not, why not?
#auspol
@UROCKlive1
@cmclymer
I think the heyday of internet cafes was in the time of home dialup modems, and when home computers weren't all that common. I'm old enough to remember those days. I think I've had them all -- Commodore 64, Atari, ...
My daily complaint.
How hard can it be to make blister packs for pills where the silver backing doesn't adhere to the pill?
And, while we're on the topic -- why blister packs? Is the the nanny state mentality? Can't we be trusted with pill bottles?
@SMpwrgr
@Mark_Butler_MP
@Mark_Butler_MP
is arguably Australia's worst, most incompetent Health Minister. He's demonstrated repeatedly that he is totally ignorant of public health. One can only hope that the good people of Hindmarsh vote him out at the next election.
When will our Australian journos learn to actually QUESTION politicians and make them provide evidence for their (often outrageous) claims? When? When?