‘Angry’ Hazzard demands vaccine apology

A furious Brad Hazzard has slammed the federal government over “misleading” figures which suggest NSW hasn’t effectively rolled out the COVID-19 vaccine effectively, demanding an apology.

Mr Hazzard says he “is extremely angry”, accusing the federal government of “dumping figures into the media which actually are quite misleading is wholly inappropriate, very disappointing and I think is not really helpful in ensuring community confidence”.

“Let me make it very clear, I am as angry as I have ever been in this 15 months of war against this virus,” he says.

Mr Hazzard said NSW had been “dumped” with 45,000 vaccines, despite earlier advice from the federal government that the state would only receive 13.000 doses.

“Well, you get 45,000 items dumped on your front door at night and told ‘Now you should have it out by the next morning’, no-one would be able to do that,” he says.

“We are still the gold standard because we have amazing front line health staff and if we are given the clear evidence and indications of what we are going to get, we will work to that.

“Not happy at all today and I think the Federal Government should be offering apologies to not only our Government but other governments around the country.”