‘We don’t have a Team Australia approach’: Vaccine facility rejects plea for help

NSW is scrambling to build a $250 million mRNA facility to produce vaccines against potentially disastrous animal pandemics after being refused access to Moderna’s new taxpayer-funded factory in Melbourne.

The Clayton factory – touted as the southern hemisphere’s only mRNA manufacturing facility and backed by the federal and Victorian governments – opened last month under a $2 billion, 10-year deal with the US pharmaceutical giant.

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