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© 2021 AFPAustralia vows not to rush vaccine rollout, citing UK 'problems'
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AustPaul
It’s frustrating but understandable I guess as the US and UK situation is more serious than here, hence the faster approval/rollout of the vaccine.
JT, FYI, we don’t use ‘Premier’ to refer to the Prime Minister, that’s a term for state government leaders.
Luddite
Every country who can do so should be vaccinating now.
SandyBeachHeaven
The Australian premier? PM perhaps? I think so.
Speed
What problems exactly has GB encountered so far with the vaccinations?
Luddite
@Speed. Good question. The main problem seems to be not enough trained people available to vaccinate.
blvtzpk
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Each Australian state has a Premier (upper case ‘P’), but ‘premier’ (lower case ‘p’) can be used as a synonym / substitute for prime minister.
Dictionaries can help with these issues.
AustPaul
@bltvtzpk
I don’t need a dictionary, guarantee the word premier is never used for the PM.
From our electoral commission;
https://www.aec.gov.au/indigenous/files/iepp-factsheet-three-levels.pdf
Pukey2
I suppose they're just waiting to see if anything bad happens to the guinea pigs!
blvtzpk
From the leading Australian dictionary, Macquarie:
From the Collins Cobuild dictionary
I’m not arguing, but the author of the piece (AFP, not Japan Today) seemed to want to include a synonym, so went with ‘premier.’ I get that the Australian Macquarie dictionary adds ‘elsewhere’ for its use.
It’s kind of funny the Collins Cobuild provided ‘Paul Keating’ as an example of a premier - not me!
Hervé L'Eisa
Death is considered to be a serious side effect. A nurse in Portugal has died suddenly two days after receiving a shot of the vaccine(Pfizer/BioNTech one).
Hung Nguyen
The word "Australian premier" is incorrectly used for Scott Morrison, the Prime Minister (PM) of Australia. Under the current political system in Australia, there are six state premiers and two chief ministers of the territories.
P.s: I fully agree with AustPaul's comment, "I don’t need a dictionary, guarantee the word premier is never used for the PM."
virusrex
Not everything that happens after a vaccination is a side effect. If someone wins a prize in the lottery two days after being vaccinated is this a side effect?
kurisupisu
Then the chances of getting side effects would be higher then.
SwissToni
AustPaul, cracaphat, Hung Nguyen
You appear to be getting your proper and common nouns mixed up. Premier (upper case P) identifies an individual and is a proper noun, whereas the common noun premier (lower case) in this case identifies a class of person, ie national leaders.
The usage in the article is correct.
Also, in this case the Australian premier (( ◠‿◠ )/) is factually incorrect. The UK is ensuring newly manufactured batches of vaccine are tested.
Ah_so
@SwissToni - you are quite right. Lower case 'premier' is a generic term used for the senior political leader of any country.
SwissToni
P.Smith, having a hard time clarifying that. The entries I can find for the common noun form only discusses senior political leaders. I think in this case where the man in the Australian big chair’s title is Prime Minister, I’m going to stand by the evidence that premier as used in the article is fine. Happy to leave an open verdict on the question of its use for a President.
Strangerland
A premier in Australia is the head of a state. The head of the nation is the Prime Minister. While the term 'premier' may generically refer to a senior political leader, when you are speaking in a context where the term has a more specific meaning (the head of an Australian state), it becomes at best ambiguous, and at worse, incorrect.
It was a bad choice of wording.