Vaccination mandatory for aged care workers as AstraZeneca made available to all Australian adults

Scott Morrison announces major changes to Australia's vaccine rollout after emergency national cabinet meeting

Under-40s will finally be allowed to get the AstraZeneca vaccine if they want it, while aged care workers will have to get at least one vaccine dose by mid-September, as Australia moves to war game" its bungled vaccine program.

Scott Morrison, who spent more than two hours with the nation's premiers and chief ministers in an emergency' national cabinet meeting on Monday evening, emerged to announce long called-for changes to the commonwealth's vaccine rollout.