Explainer

How would Labor's cash incentive to get people vaccinated work?

Steve Evans
Updated August 3 2021 - 6:27pm, first published 12:30pm
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese wants to pay people to get the jab. Picture: Elesa Kurtz
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese wants to pay people to get the jab. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Labor has proposed a $300 payment to persuade people to get fully vaccinated. The cash incentive would go to everybody who has had the two jabs by the beginning of December.

Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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