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• Morrison government to fund $600m gas-fired power plant in NSW Hunter region
• Australia urged to drop coal and gas plans after global energy agency's warning
• Nurse administers one Covid vaccine in eight hours at Victorian hub as NSW ramps up rollout
• Linda Reynolds says NDIS is too reliant on natural empathy' of public servants

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That's where I will leave you for tonight. Here's what we learned today:

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More than 1.5m Covid-19 vaccines - one in every four distributed - are sitting unused in clinics across the country, prompting calls for a major campaign" to tackle vaccine hesitancy and revive the country's immunisation program.

Chief political correspondent Sarah Martin on the urgent calls for a national campaign aimed at boosting the vaccine take-up rate after a new survey found about 30% of Australians were unlikely to get a vaccine.

Related: More than 1.5m Covid vaccines sitting unused in clinics across Australia