EXCLUSIVE | Vaccinated Australians will be able to use their mobile phones to gain exemptions to lockdown rules at cafes, restaurants and public events under a national cabinet plan to use digital records to verify vaccine status, reports crowedm
Millions of vaccinated Australians will be able to use their mobile phones to gain exemptions to lockdown rules at cafes, restaurants and public events under a national cabinet plan to use digital records to verify vaccine status.
Called a “vaccine passport” by some, the proposal relies mostly on the QR codes already mandated across the states and territories for people to record the places they visit so contact tracers can check on outbreaks. Mr Morrison said the national plan was a “deal with Australians” and had to go ahead despite suggestions from some premiers, such as Mark McGowan in Western Australia and Annastacia Palaszczuk in Queensland, that rising case numbers could change their thinking.“Premiers and chief ministers have signed up to that plan, but they haven’t signed up with me, they’ve signed up with the Australian people,” Mr Morrison said.
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