COVID vaccine rollout to disabled people condemned as 'abject failure'

Royal Commission Chair Ronald Sackville

Royal Commission Chair Ronald Sackville Source: AAP

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Witnesses have told a special one-day hearing of the Disability Royal Commission they have been unable to get vaccinated, despite being in a priority group.

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