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Interesting insight into COVID vaccine politics today.  It seems that a senior Australian businessman asked Kevin Rudd to  encourage Pfizer to bring forward supplies of their vaccine.

Well documented story on the ABC News site.  Clever effective diplomacy. Instructive to read the letters, the way Rudd managed the situation and the effect of previous  Scomo negotiations   on  the Pfizer management.

Senior business figures turned to former PM Kevin Rudd to intervene in bringing forward Australia's Pfizer vaccine supply 

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 / By Laura Tingle

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 A network of senior businessmen contacted former prime minister Kevin Rudd and set up an introduction with Pfizer boss Albert Bourla. (

AAP: Mick Tsikas

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The bringing forward of millions of Pfizer vaccine doses last week followed a back channels intervention eight days earlier by a high-powered network which included a senior business figure despairing of the government's failure to secure enough vaccine supplies, and a former prime minister.

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