As Australia’s abject vaccine failure lingers, with new lockdowns in Victoria, Qantas may step in where the Morrison Government fears to tread:

• Qantas is mulling free vouchers for or frequent flyer miles for the vaccinated.
• Other incentives are also being considered.

Why the Morrison Government hasn’t taken the carrot and stick approach to skyrocketing vaccine hesitancy is an interesting question. Is it too much to assert that keeping the borders closed until after the coming election is the reason?

After all, state governments that have had hard border controls have rampaged to victory.

I wouldn’t put it past the personality disordered PM to risk the life, limb and economy of his people to deliver himself another term. Not at all.

The vaccine rollout remains incredibly slow versus our own targets:

Indeed, if you want a hearty laugh, check out this ABC interactive which compares the rollout with the many and various targets put forward by Morrison’s turkeys:

We continue to fall far behind other developed economies:

We did have some comfort from a badly lagging Japan but that’s gone now as its daily rate hurtles past ours.

This is the Prison Island, free flights or not!

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.

He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.

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