Queensland opposition still 'questioning’ firing of nurse over COVID vaccine

Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli says his party are going to “keep questioning” the Queensland government over the firing of a nurse who wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. “Nurses are leaving in droves from Queensland Health, they feel battered, broken and bruised and here’s one who wants to go to work, and she can’t,” Mr Crisafulli told Sky News host Caleb Bond. “We said to the Minister, well hang on the requirements were lifted … clearly that doesn’t apply to this person. “We’ve repeatedly asked that question and we haven’t got an answer, so we are going to keep asking that question on behalf of her and everybody else." A Brisbane nurse with seven years’ experience was fired from her job at Queensland Children’s Hospital just before Christmas for failing to comply with the government’s COVID vaccine mandate more than two years after it was introduced.