Australia’s failure to vaccinate Indigenous people

Covid-19 is spreading throughout western NSW – even infiltrating small, remote Indigenous communities – in what is now the worst outbreak for the Aboriginal population in this pandemic so far. Meanwhile vaccination rates for Indigenous people are lagging behind the general population, with particularly low rates across western NSW. Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam explains how a series of failures at a state and federal level led to this moment, and outlines the need for transparency and accountability