Topics: AUKUS; migration program; illicit drug seizures; Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rollout through community pharmacies. NEIL BREEN: Every Wednesday, I speak to Home Affairs Minister, Cabinet Minister, MP for McPherson on the Gold Coast, Karen Andrews. The Minister joins me on the line. Good morning, Minister. KAREN ANDREWS: Good morning, Neil. How are you? NEIL BREEN:…
Topics: QLD/NSW border, Queensland Government’s border restrictions, COVID-19 vaccine rollout. MATT WEBBER: Ms Andrews, good morning. Where are you at on what the solution may look like to make life easier for our friends on the Tweed? KAREN ANDREWS: I’ve been clear and consistent all the way through, which is that – firstly – we…
Topics: Lockdown protests, ramp up of vaccination rollout, border exemptions, QLD-NSW state border. MATT WEBBER: Member for McPherson on the Gold Coast and Minister for Home Affairs, Karen Andrews, joins me each fortnight to talk about, well, any number of issues, it’s a movable feast. Minister, good morning to you. KAREN ANDREWS: Good morning Matt.…
Topics: COVID-19 vaccine rollout, repatriation from India, violent extremism PATRICIA KARVELAS: Karen Andrews is the Minister for Home Affairs and my guest this evening. Welcome to the program. KAREN ANDREWS: Hi Patricia. PATRICIA KARVELAS: Do you agree a new and better national advertising campaign is needed to combat vaccine hesitancy? KAREN ANDREWS: Look, we’re clearly…
Topics: International borders, skilled migration, vaccine manufacturing, Sri Lankan family, aged care E&OE: ANDREW CLENNELL: Okay, so now I’m joined by the Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews. Minister, thanks for joining us. KAREN ANDREWS: A pleasure. ANDREW CLENNELL: We’ve heard here from Greg Hunt, Scott Morrison, different versions of what might happen with the opening…
Topics: Home Affairs portfolio, Cabinet, Mechanical engineering, Quotas, Australia Post, COVID-19 vaccine rollout E&OE: NEIL BREEN: Yes, my special guest joining me live in the studio this morning is Gold Coast MP, Karen Andrews. But she’s also a Cabinet Minister and she was promoted to one of the most senior positions in the Federal Government…
A free COVID-19 vaccine will be available progressively throughout 2021 in Australia, if promising trials prove successful, following a $1.7 billion supply and production agreement between the Australian Government and pharmaceutical companies. Under the agreement, the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca and the University of Queensland/CSL will provide more than 84.8 million vaccine doses for the Australian…
Topics: COVID-19 vaccine, border restrictions E&OE: Deborah Knight: Karen Andrews is the Minister for Science and Industry, she’s on the line for us now. Minister, thanks for joining us. Karen Andrews: It’s a pleasure, Deb. Deborah Knight: An exciting development, but it’s still not quite set in stone, is it? It’s still a Letter of…
Australians will be among the first in the world to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, if it proves successful, through an agreement between the Australian Government and UK-based drug company AstraZeneca. Under the deal, every single Australian will be able to receive the University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for free, should trials prove successful, safe and…
Topics: COVID-19 vaccine agreement E&OE: Fran Kelly: Every single Australian will receive a free COVID vaccine under a deal struck with the British based drug company AstraZeneca. The Morrison Government says we will be among the first in the world to be inoculated against the COVID-19 virus, if Phase 3 trials show that the vaccine…