Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services) Share this | Hansard source

The national plan, which has been publicly released, for everybody to see, contemplates a number of thresholds—70 per cent and 80 per cent vaccination rates across the country—to facilitate a staged process to safely open up the Australian community again, to facilitate movement and to reactivate our economy, in support of all Australians. It doesn't discriminate against Indigenous communities or any other community, to be frank. We want to see vaccination rates in every single community as high as possible. We urge that. With respect to Indigenous Australians and their vaccination, that's why we prioritised them, understanding the sensitivities that exist with respect to Indigenous communities. That's why we opened vaccination to Indigenous Australians in phase 1b on 22 March last year. We made vaccines available to Indigenous Australians very early in the piece.