Anika Wells, who holds the north Brisbane seat of Lilley on a razor-thin margin of 0.6 per cent, said she started the Facebook service this week to save people the trouble of hunting for RATs only to face disappointment. | Cameron Atfield
Labor’s most marginal Queensland MP has embraced RAT running in her community, publishing information on social media every night to help her constituents locate rare rapid antigen tests.
“I am a parent of young kids and I’ve had to try to track down RATs to test as we’ve moved around, and it’s basically all people can talk about this summer,” she said. Ms Wells said she had noticed a change in mood around her electorate since the current COVID-19 wave began, adding: “The anger is white hot out there, like it’s a real barbecue stopper.”“If you look at Scott Morrison’s own admission, he talked when he went to Glasgow about using RATs over there to be able to do his work,” she said.
“So you have free tests in healthcare, you have support for 6.6 million concessional cardholders, and then you have community access through pharmacies and through supermarkets.”found Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and his Labor team were struggling to make the inroads in Queensland that they had in other states.
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