Commentary After a slow start, vaccination rates have accelerated strongly in Australia, with 6,240,640 Aussies now fully vaccinated and just over half the population (52.8 percent) having at least one jab in their arm. But although Australians would like to hear that their uptake of the vaccine was world-leading, it is actually Canada’s and Spain’s vaccination efforts that are currently leading the world, not Australia’swith Canada managing to get nearly 73 percent of its population over the age of 12 vaccinated in 52 days. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks this performance will impress Canadian voters that it is worth risking an early general election to try recapture the parliamentary majority his Liberal Party lost in 2019. Australian politicians—who face a federal election before May next year—have more than a passing interest in the outcome of Trudeau’s gamble. But it is Canada’s vaccination performance and what we can learn from …
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