The Vaccine Rollout
![Scott Morrison and others fall off bikes. Annastacia Palaszczuk holds a sign that says, 'AstraZeneca vaccine is [death symbol]'. Text reads: 'The vaccine rollout pelaton'.](/sites/default/files/2024-10/2021_th04_05_the-vaccine-rollout_knight.jpg "Scott Morrison and others fall off bikes. Annastacia Palaszczuk holds a sign that says, 'AstraZeneca vaccine is [death symbol]'. Text reads: 'The vaccine rollout pelaton'.")
Mark Knight
2 July 2021
Mark Knight is another cartoonist to provide a take on the Tour de France’s viral moment. This time the hapless spectator holding the placard is Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Questions being asked about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine created an unwelcome disruption to the federal government’s vaccine rollout.
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