The Morrison government has approached the market for a show of interest in manufacturing mRNA vaccines in Australia.
There's a strict list of requirements for the successful candidate, but Mr Porter indicated a group of companies could work together, potentially in a partnership with a university or state government."Australians can have great confidence that we will be one of the small handful of countries that will have an early sovereign manufacturing capability for mRNA," he told reporters in Perth on Friday.
Taxpayers are expected to foot some costs of the process, but Mr Porter would not be drawn on how much or what form it would take. In order to get the tick of approval, companies have to give the government a fully costed approval for a facility that could produce vaccines and other therapeutic goods over the next decade.They need to show that they could quickly respond to future health emergencies and produce more than 25 million doses, enough for the Australian population.Deputy Opposition Leader Richard Marles said the government should have made the decision last year.
Are you sure Scotty won't give it to one of his mates, who hasn't even gone through the tender process?
Fund the CSIRO , private companies will have their hand out anyway . Time for more than another diet plan .
We used to be the lucky country, then the Howard era ushered in this plethora of shit fucks.
The Godfather
SCOTTY FROM MARKETING. THE LIAR FROM THE SHIRE GOT THE PFIZER VACCINE. YOU CAN HAVE THE SHITFUL ASTRA ZENICA VACCINE AND POSSIBLY DIE.
The first cutting edge decision we need to make is to get rid of this incompetent parasite ScottMorrisonMP! The rest will come naturally.
What about the companies Scomo defunded while they were doing that last year?
Why even pretend that the gov will look beyond big pharma and backdoor deals with a select few research institutions. May as well just make the announcement and get on with it.
Stop your geopolitics and cold war mentality. You are placing our lives in danger with your big pharma western only agreed alternatives
Now My gawd!! He has only had 12 months!! Embarrassing!
Remember when we had a well funded csiro? The same csiro that earned the government billions from the creation of wifi? World leading science before the clown scomo cut funding. He's a joke.
Should be building vaccine quarantines instead
Why you don't seek way for bringing international students? Scott Morrison government lied international students died.
War accelerates change- the war on COVID should do the same
If only our universities were funded better and education, research were priority instead of being a migration business.
So now he’s interested in Science and our Research Institutions...too little too late. Your mates rates AstraZeneca investment club doesn’t cut it with the over 50s...when Prosperity Theology doesn’t pay off.
This change of face is driven by WHO’s new directives.
Government over the PA: “If any passengers can fly a plane, please alert the nearest flight attendant.”
Maybe they could develop rape kits too.
I think Dominos, 7/11 and Maccas are onto it including two for Tuesday home delivery 🙄
IF he`d Left & Added Funding to CSIRO & the like ..... IF Voters THOUGHT B4 Voting...
Morrison is just full of spin and bullshit
The threat has been there for years about a super 🦠 virus Blind Freddy could see that there should have been a plan which includes producing the vaccine in Australia for exactly these situations. What the hell have successive governments done? SFA
Wow. They might’ve raised this idea 16 months ago (when everyone else was telling them to) 🤦♂️
Do they have to offer donations or is offering expertise enough to be considered?
I thought ScottMorrisonMP said he had secured millions of doses of vaccine. Maybe he was lying. Yeo, that's what it was.
Just seems like another thing, that should have been raised earlier..