Tuesday, 16 November 2021


Constituency questions

Western Metropolitan Region


Western Metropolitan Region

Dr CUMMING (Western Metropolitan) (12:18): (1505) My question is to the Minister for Health, and my question is this: how are people who do not own a mobile phone to prove vaccination status in Western Metropolitan Region, and why have you locked out the poor and the vulnerable in Western Metropolitan Region? I met Mr Ian Reid, who lives at Floyd Lodge, which is a Cohealth community health service in Hanmer Street in Williamstown, on the steps of St Mary’s church in Cecil Street on 11 November, which was Remembrance Day. He wanted me to buy him a mobile phone as he now cannot get into any of the shops because he has not got a digital passport. He has a speech impediment, he is 88, he is frail and he has no family for help. Minister, why have you locked out the poor and vulnerable? Why can’t they continue using paper and pen?