The Australian Department of Health has responded to allegations by NT Senator Malarndirri McCarthy that poor communication by the Federal Government early in the pandemic is responsible for the low vaccination rates in many remote Aboriginal communities. This comes on the back of comments the Labor senator made earlier in the week that she believes a communication misstep in the federal vaccination rollout allowed for misinformation from social media to overtake the government’s vaccination messaging. “The vaccination, as we know, should have occurred earlier this year, and I put it down to a lot of communication or miscommunication across the country,” she told ABC News on Wednesday. She explained that in February, she and the Australian Labor Party’s First Nation’s Caucus were briefed by the federal health department about the indigenous vaccine rollout, and she noted that she had to ask about a communication strategy for Indigenous Australian communities, given there …