Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, they do and, yes, they will. But it may have passed the attention of the leader of the Labor Party—as it seems to on many occasions—that, since December of last year, there has been a significant crisis this country has been dealing with, and a rolling set of crises—

Mr Albanese interjecting—

and the Leader of the Opposition is correct—bushfires, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic, a COVID-19 pandemic that has escaped the attention of the Leader of the Opposition, who doesn't seem to have understood that that is what has caused the COVID-19 recession in this country. As I said the other day, if you don't know how you got into the problem—

Honourable members interjecting—

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