Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Petitions

Following petitions presented to house:

COVID-19 vaccination

The Petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council the existing and unnecessary blanket COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

These blanket vaccine mandates must be removed permanently in Victoria as COVID-19 numbers associated with death, hospitalisation and intensive care unit admission have drastically fallen. There is no justification in keeping the vaccine mandates any longer. The Government also keeps moving vaccination targets. The previous target was 85 per cent, the current vaccination target is now 90 per cent.

Removing these mandates will save livelihoods, marriages and businesses. It will also ensure that there is no need for people to be terminated from their employment and becoming a government statistic.

The petitioners therefore request that the Legislative Council call on the Government to remove COVID-19 vaccine mandates immediately in order to save hundreds of thousands of jobs as the current mandates are not justified with the plummeting COVID-19 numbers.

By Mr ATKINSON (Eastern Metropolitan) (102 signatures).

Laid on table.