COVID Vaccine rollout and how it affects people with a disability, Conservation and the Forests Mirboo North, Long Covid Support Group, Developments in Afghanistan

Wednesday, 29 September 2021 - 7:00am to 8:30am
Giancarlo De Vera, Senior Policy Manager with People with Disability Australia, discusses the government's vaccine rollout for people with a disability, which has failed to fully vaccinate people with a disability, despite placing them in priority groups 1a and 1b.
 
Marg Thomas from Preserve our Forests Mirboo North, tells us about the  report they released yesterday, the Conservation Values Of the Mirboo North State Forest Immediate Protection Area. The report documents a community-led campaign including citizen science field surveys and research into forest biodiversity, socio-economic values and amenity, other forest values encompassing the water catchment, and forest governance.


Claire Hastie founder of the Long Covid support group, talking about her experience with long covid, the research that is taking place to understand long covid and what still needs to be done.

 
Azadah Raz Mohammed, lawyer and PHD student at the University of Melbourne, talks to us about Afghanistan under the Taliban, her own life in Kabul and experience coming to Australia, and the countries that acknowledge the Taliban and may invest in the development of a Taliban Afghanistan. 
 
Songs: 
The Jellies - Jive Baby on a Satuday Night 
Sally Oldfiend - Blue Water 
Ahmed Fakroun - Soleil Soleil 
Only Live Once - James (Beyond the Bars 2015)