The secretary of the Australian federal Department of Health, Professor Brendan Murphy, has called the continuation of vaccine mandates in Australia unjustified.
Despite the removal of top-level vaccine mandates by state governments, the public health orders still remain across government departments and parts of the private sector.
“We have a highly vaccinated population. If people are foolish enough to choose not to be vaccinated, then I’m not sure that mandates are going to achieve much,” Prof. Murphy told a Senate Estimates hearing on June 1.
“I think in some healthcare setting early on, particularly when the risk of transmission was high, and the vaccines did in the early phases prevent transmission. I think they were proportionate,” he said….