Western Australians angry over the state’s vaccine mandates for around 100,000 health and mining workers have grown increasingly frustrated about the misrepresentation of them from both the state government and local media. This comes as thousands of West Australians took to the city centre in the state’s capital, Perth, on Oct. 16 to protest government directives that will force WA’s health, construction and mining workers to either get vaccinated or lose their livelihoods. Currently, the decision to mandate vaccines has evoked increasing criticism of the McGowan government, particularly from nurses, midwives, health sector administrative staff, miners, and construction workers, among others who have protested for the third time in the past month to argue that vaccination should be a choice. But the crowd also expressed irritation towards the portrayal of protestors from state media and government as “anti-vaxxers.” A nurse speaking at the event stated that rally goers who had stood …