A timeline thread on Australia’s vaccines

19/8/20 PM media release: ‘Australians will be among the first in the world to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, if it proves successful, through an agreement between the Australian Government &...AstraZeneca.’
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/new-deal-secures-potential-covid-19-vaccine-every-australian

7/9/20 Govt announces $1.7 billion Uni of Oxford/AstraZeneca & the Uni of QLD/CSL Manufacturing agreements. PM says “a home-grown sovereign plan for vaccines is the hope I bring to Australians today.”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/australia-secures-onshore-manufacturing-agreements-two-covid-19-vaccines

5/11/20 Govt announced 2 more vaccines, Novavax (40 million doses) & 10 million doses Pfizer/BioNTech. PM “...our Strategy puts Australia at the front of the queue, if our medical experts give the vaccines the green light.”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/australia-secures-further-50-million-doses-covid-19-vaccine

5/11/20 PM “our policy and program, led by Prof Murphy, on getting Australia at the front of the pack when it comes to vaccines”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/doorstop-randwick-nsw-0

11/12/20 PM “...what we can do is vaccinate our population twice over. And we have one of the highest ratios of availability of doses of any country in the world…”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-australian-parliament-house-11

1/1/2021 PM “we're being careful to ensure that we dot all the Is & we cross all the Ts...We're moving promptly to do that...but we're not cutting corners...On the vaccine, you don't rush to failure. That's very dangerous for Australians.”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-2

5/1/21 PM “I don't think Australians want us just willy-nilly sending out vials of vaccine that haven't had their batches tested, which is the normal process that occurs with any TGA approved vaccine.”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/interview-tony-jones-3aw

7/1/21 PM: “we are now in a position where we believe we'll be able to commence vaccinations of high priority groups in mid to late February.”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-australian-parliament-house-12

22/1/21 PM “no we haven't announced any date...we've talked about getting things done in mid to late February. These things...are very conditional upon the supply arrangements coming out of Pfizer in particular.”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/interview-neil-breen-4bc-4

22/1/21 PM “our process is world leading. It's world class. It's a process that I believe Australians can have a lot of confidence in. We're not rushing this, nor are we delaying it. We are getting it right.”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-brisbane-qld-0

25/1/21 TGA approve Pfizer vaccine

PM “we remain on track to have those vaccines in Australia & ready to go from very small beginnings... very small beginnings, starting small...We are more looking at late February now than mid-February...”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-australian-parliament-house-act-25-01-21

1/2/21 PM “from the end of February...we'll be able to start vaccinating those in the most sensitive areas, those most vulnerable, those frontline health workers...& then over the course of the year, we expect to get through the population by October.”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/interview-tracy-grimshaw-current-affair

12/2/21 PM “our vaccination programme, it's on track & it's sovereign. We're doing it here in Australia...within a matter of weeks, starting next week, as they finish, they do the final stage of that process. I call it the bottling process...”
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-parkville-vic

15/2/21 Health Minister Greg Hunt announces "The Eagle has landed. I am pleased to be able to tell Australians that shortly after midday, the first shipment of Pfizer vaccines arrived in Australia." https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-greg-hunt-mp/media/doorstop-interview-on-15-february-2021