Sharon Claydon (Newcastle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw, Deputy Speaker, out of respect to you and your office. But the Prime Minister, who has had some experience, I am led to believe, in marketing in a prior life, is completely unable to run a community education campaign on vaccination. There is no community health promotion campaign going on. It is not necessary, apparently.

I go back to the issue that we're going nowhere on vaccinations. We're on a road to nowhere when it comes to the complete disregard for the Commonwealth's responsibility to manage quarantine and keep our borders and our nation safe. We're going nowhere on National Sorry Day, I just remind this House again. We are going nowhere on the Uluru Statement from the Heart, going nowhere in terms of any real action on climate change, going nowhere on addressing the gender pay gap or gender equality in this nation, going nowhere on real new energy jobs, going nowhere on addressing the housing crisis in Australia, going nowhere on Australian manufacturing and being able to boost our capacity to make things again here in Australia, going nowhere on wages growth, going nowhere on education and training—going backwards, indeed, on education and training in this nation—and going nowhere on national leadership full stop. This is a Prime Minister who has no vision, no courage, no guts and no appetite to build a better Australia for after this pandemic—absolutely nothing. That empathy training was a complete waste of money.

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