House debates

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Questions without Notice

Covid-19

2:16 pm

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

Well, there you see it, Mr Speaker—the bipartisan display in the fight against the virus! That's what we've seen from the Labor Party, all the way through this, at every opportunity, when they're tested: they'd rather fight the Liberal Party—fight those Tories! That is the reason the Leader of the Labor Party came here. He didn't come here to work together to get solutions. He just came here to fight and fight the Tories. Fighting the Tories isn't going to fight the virus. That's what this government is doing. Under this government, working with the states and territories, 30,000 deaths have been avoided in this country when you compare it to the average of OECD countries around the world. There are more people in jobs today than there were before the pandemic. The Leader of the Labor Party may want to play politics with the pandemic. He may want to—

Mr Frydenberg interjecting

Mr Albanese interjecting

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