Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move the following motion:

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) the Prime Minister had two jobs this year, to get the vaccine rollout right and to create a safe, national quarantine system, and the Victorian outbreak has shown he has failed at both;

(b) the Prime Minister announced these aged care residents and staff would be vaccinated by Easter but has failed to deliver, leaving them vulnerable;

(c) shockingly, when asked this morning, the Aged Care Minister could not even say how many aged care residents in Victoria had been fully vaccinated;

(d) in November last year, the Government ceased its efforts to prevent aged care workers working in multiple facilities in Australia; and

(e) this Government has failed its basic duty to protect older and vulnerable Australians; and

(2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to attend the Chamber and make a statement of no more than 30 minutes in length accounting for these failures.

Leave not granted.

I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Hindmarsh from moving the following motion immediately:

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) the Prime Minister had two jobs this year, to get the vaccine rollout right and to create a safe, national quarantine system, and the Victorian outbreak has shown he has failed at both;

(b) the Prime Minister announced these aged care residents and staff would be vaccinated by Easter but has failed to deliver, leaving them vulnerable;

(c) shockingly, when asked this morning, the Aged Care Minister could not even say how many aged care residents in Victoria had been fully vaccinated;

(d) in November last year, the Government ceased its efforts to prevent aged care workers working in multiple facilities in Australia; and

(e) this Government has failed its basic duty to protect older and vulnerable Australians; and

(2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to attend the Chamber and make a statement of no more than 30 minutes in length accounting for these failures.

The Prime Minister had two jobs this year, a speedy effective vaccine rollout and safe national quarantine facilities.

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