Shadow Health Minister Mark Butler says while Australia was stuck in “bureaucratic quicksand” other countries were busy “securing these life-saving vaccines for their people”.
It comes as documents released by Labor under freedom of information show the offer for meetings with “senior members” of Pfizer was made in July 2020 – when other countries began signing global deals for doses.Pfizer has since come out overnight and said the deal did in fact progress as fast as possible.
“Read Pfizer’s language carefully, of course it proceeded as fast as possible because there was a ‘go-slow’ put in place by the Australian government,” Mr Butler told told Sky News Australia. “For weeks and weeks and weeks as these documents show, the government was haggling over the terms of a non-disclosure agreement while all of those other countries had signed deals.”
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