COVID-19 vaccination
Dr CUMMING (Western Metropolitan) (14:37): Everyone should be allowed to return to work. Employment mandates must stop. Employment mandates have not stopped COVID. Employment mandates are cruel and they are unnecessary. Employment mandates have put pressure on every workplace. We need to stop the mandates for employment now. All mandates should be lifted because they are nonsensical, they are not helpful and they are not even scientific. Businesses, industries and workplaces need to drop all their mandates now and allow everyone to go back to work. The chief health officer believes that it is time to start winding back mandates and to move towards the discretion of industries and individual workplaces. It is about time businesses listened to the health advice and lifted all the mandates for their business’s sake. The Premier does not listen to health advice—or to anyone for that matter—so why should anyone listen to the Premier when it comes to mandates? Do yourself a favour, businesses, industry and workplaces: lift the mandates and get your workers back to where they want to be, which is in their workplaces.