Western Metropolitan Region
Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) (12:37): (1674) My constituency question is to the Minister for Health. I have been contacted by a constituent who tells me his problem is shared by quite a number of people who live in Melbourne’s west. It concerns the Coles warehouse in Somerton just across the border from my region and of course in Mr Ondarchie’s region of Northern Metro, but it does employ a significant number of my constituents. I would suggest very strongly this also impacts many other workplaces across the western suburbs of Melbourne. Three doses of the COVID so-called vaccine are mandated for all workers in the Somerton warehouse. Anyone can go to a Coles supermarket and wander around unvaxxed, but the people who ensure that the supply chain is kept in place cannot work without three jabs. This in my view is ludicrous and makes no sense at all. Minister, when will you end this ridiculous mandate and allow all these workers to actually work to feed their families?