Health Minister defends handling of Pfizer negotiations

Health Minister Greg Hunt says it was appropriate for the head of the country’s vaccine taskforce to be the senior government official at Australia’s first formal meeting with Pfizer last year as Labor continues to accuse the government of being too slow to move on a deal.to engage with senior executives in a first official, highly detailed meeting in early July.Alex Ellinghausen

“The reason why we’re in lockdown today is because of the failure of the government on the vaccine rollout.”show, Mr Hunt denied the government had been slow and said he and his office had been engaged with the pharmaceutical company from the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. Australia signed a deal with Pfizer for 10 million doses in November. The Commonwealth has since inked further deals with the company, for a total of 40 million doses this year, 60 million for next year and 25 million in 2023.

“What we received was the earliest possible available, and we received it in the quantities that they made available,” he said.Loading

What rot !!

It's always someone else's job...

Pathetic

Wasn't the taskforce formed in June of this year?

Effort--less Did not make any effort at all.

Standard answer of a Morrison Minister, 'it wasn't me, I've delegated this work for others to do.' So what purpose are Hunt, Morrison et al and what do they actually do and take responsibility for? They spend all their media time defending themselves from their innertness. FAIL

Even The Age is making negative comments about Hunt, and therefore Morrison, in the pfizer débacle. Who could have imagined it?

Compare the pathetic efforts of the LNPCorruptionParty securing enough vaccines with how slick they are when moving to shore up their votes with corruption like SportsRorts and CarParkRorts. Tells you all you need to know about them VaccineStrollout

I understand the ends of your mouth visibly slope downwards when you are lying! 😟

Epic fail by Greg Hunt. Incompetent, indecisive and evasive when questioned. LNP pedigree👌

I don't hold a hose 2.0 🙄

Appalling lack of urgency and no leadership which denied our community better protection from Covid-19.

One of the biggest bluffers ever seen , hopefully the people won't forget in the upcoming election.lots of deaths on his hands.

It was your job GregHuntMP - you let us all down.

FULL. OF. SHIT! LNPCrimeFamily

Defending the indefensible

Yep. It’s everyone else’s fault🙄

Yet didnt think it might be a good idea to invest a billion into the one the US and UK were heavily leaning into, or even meet with them as requested, stalling for months. Even if what Hunt says is true, it just makes him look more stupid and thoughtless

So Pfizer never asked to meet with GregHuntMP?

Greg Hunt overheard asking Scott Morrison about evading responsibility and blaming others:

There's a lot of fish in the sea malaka

No redeeming qualities. Unbelievable.

Always someone else's job with these guys. Kevin Rudd spoke to the global head of pfizer. It wasn't Kevin's job but he did it anyway. If Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt are not up to the job then THEY CAN GO!!

I don’t hold the syringe mate!

And who does the Vaccine Taskforce report to?

Can any of them ever just own up to the fact they stuffed up? Omg.

Hi Greg: You established committees You hired consultants You came up with a plan You accepted the committees advice. You took no other initiative It was all your plan You failed You're the minister You resign. ...like this 👇 auspol

Anyone keeping a tally of the excuses proffered by Hunt, Morrison, Murphy, Frewen and ors.

Resign GregHuntMP Age care deaths Vaccine rollout debacle resignhunt

Deflecting blame - when Pfizer wrote to the Minister? I didn't expect that! SackHunt

Oh look, he used the 'its not my job' excuse Who has bingo? Oh we all do? Bingo isn't fun when we all know whats going to happen before it happens

Really?

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