First Nations COVID-19 vaccination rates are "patchy and unacceptably low" in some communities, including the Goulburn area, according to Senator Deborah O'Neill, Labor Senator for NSW and Duty Senator for Hume.
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Newly released localised data shows low vaccination rates at a regional level, including 21.28 per cent fully vaccinated in the Goulburn area (Capital Region in the data spreadsheet).
This compares to 30.4 per cent of the population as a whole fully vaccinated in the Goulburn Mulwaree LGA, and 44.4 per cent in the Wingecarribee.
Some regions are even worse, with only 13.7 per cent fully vaccinated in the Far West and Orana region, and 15.19 per cent in the New England and North West.
The Government was forced to reveal the localised data after Labor moved a motion in the Senate last week for an order for the production of documents.
All states and territories apart from Victoria are well below the general population.
"Labor has been demanding localised data for weeks," said Senator O'Neill.
"It is critical to identifying areas of risk and in need of urgent supplies.
"This shows that the Government has localised up-to-date data in its possession, but chooses not to publish it."
She said that misinformation about vaccines continues to spread to vulnerable communities anxious and desperate to stop further transmission of covid.
"The Government needs to step up and ramp up its communication to counter the misinformation in these communities," she said.
"It must begin with empowering trusted local Aboriginal community organisations and leaders, but what we're hearing from on the ground and what we're seeing the government's poor First Nations vaccination rates, this is not happening."
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