Covid Australia: Jacqui Lambie’s controversial incentive for fully vaccinated Australians

Jacqui Lambie reveals the controversial incentive she’ll bring in for the fully vaccinated as calls for Australia to open up to the jabbed increase over fears ‘Australia will not be worth living in’

• Jacqui Lambie appeared on the Today show on Thursday to discuss vaccinations 
• Tasmanian premier is calling for nation to reopen when 80 per cent vaccinated
• She said she would incentivise the Covid jab with joints and Krispy Kreme donuts

By Tita Smith For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 22:57 BST, 25 August 2021 | Updated: 23:44 BST, 25 August 2021

Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie has revealed the controversial incentives she would consider bringing in for the fully vaccinated as fears grow Australia ‘will not be worth living in’ if lengthy lockdowns linger.

Ms Lambie is calling for states to follow the federal government’s plan to reopen once 80 per cent of Australians over 16 have received both doses of the Covid jab. 

The MP said failing to ease restrictions once vaccination rates hit targets would have devastating effects on Australians, and politicians need to weigh up the social and economic damage against the health impacts of the virus. 

‘We need to find a middle ground and it is happening with mental health issues and suicides and the other damage it is doing,’ she told the Today show on Thursday.  

Host Alison Langdon said states in the US were offering their residents shotguns, donuts, and joints to roll up their sleeves.  

Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie (pictured) is calling for states to reopen once 80 per cent of Australians over 16 have been fully vaccinated

Asked whether Australia could introduce measures like those in the US, Ms Lambie said she would be enticed to get the jab in exchange for donuts and joints. 

‘I will have the joint first and then my Krispy Kremes later when I have the munchies,’ she said. 

Radio personality Chris Smith said fully vaccinated Australians should be offered freedoms now, otherwise ‘what is the point of getting the vaccine’. 

The 2GB host said country needs to reopen soon otherwise the economic impacts of lockdowns will make ‘Australia not worth living in’. 

‘When do we open up? Do we wait six or seven years to open up? We won’t have a country. Everyone will lose their jobs. There won’t be any commerce. It won’t be worth living in,’  he told the program. 

Ms Lambie said she appreciated those who have received both vaccines are becoming ‘crabby’ they have to wait for the rest of the nation to catch up before they are granted freedoms.

However, she said it was necessary for the wellbeing of Australians that vaccination rates are high before restrictions are eased.  

‘I think that we are all getting a bit crabby, the ones that have been lucky to have that second vaccine shot,’ she said. 

‘It is making people really angry coming up to me saying “I have had my two jabs where is my freedoms?” Unfortunately people need to realise because you have had two jabs you don’t get your freedoms the next day.’ 

‘We have to wait for people to catch up. Many out there still have to catch up. We have got to make sure we respect that. We are going to look at another two or three months to get to that point. That is unfortunate action, but it is the way it is.’ 

Ms Lambie said she does not think it is a good idea to relax restrictions while Covid numbers are ‘going through the roof’ in NSW, which reported a record high of 919 daily cases on Wednesday. 

Ms Lambie said the fully vaccinated are becoming ‘crabby’ they are yet to gain freedoms, but said it was important Australians wait until vaccination rates are high. Pictured: A HSC student receives a vaccine in Sydney

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