Dominic Perrottet on the Injustice of COVID Vaccine Mandates

Health officials and governments were acting with the right intentions to stop the spread. But if the impact of vaccines on transmission was limited at best, as is mostly now accepted, the law should have left more room and respect for freedom.

Without dwelling on every decision, I believe it’s important to point out one mistake which was made by governments here and around the world. And that was the strict enforcement of vaccine mandates. Ultimately mandates were wrong. People’s personal choices shouldn’t have cost them their jobs.

When I became Premier, we removed [vaccine mandates] or the ones we actually could, but this should have happened faster. If a pandemic comes again, we need to get a better balance encouraging people to take action whilst at the same time protecting people’s fundamental liberty.

— Dominic Perrottet, former Premier of New South Wales, Australia