Oh FFS! What she gonna do?
Undecided for now. She intends to wait as long as possible and then make a choice.
A union representing health & aged care workers has "no stance on the matter," so they told me. The government labour law body Fair Work Australia similarly has nothing to say about the legality of mandating a pharmaceutical approved for interim emergency use or a worker's right to decline a medical treatment.
I have cold-emailed some labour law professor who gave a brief interview that I found online. It's a total hail mary and the whole thing feels like fighting city hall. There's no one with any clout going to stand for working people not being strong armed into shit. Same as it ever was.
IMO she ought to use this contentious issue as a launching pad for a new union since the only way to recind the mandate is if half the country's staff (who are already too few) say they'll walk off the job. Then demand a 100% pay increase over the next 3 years, every penny of which they deserve. But she isn't a nut with a Caesar complex like me, so in the end she will either take the shot or lose the job, which she [inexplicably] loves.
And if civil liberties disappear altogether here and I decide to head back to the US with her... well, no air travel without the shot, right? Kinda got us in a box here.