Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I suppose I was reflecting on what would happen if the member for Grayndler were the government and I must say that, at the time, it was terrifying. I was overcome with fear and trepidation as to what might happen if the Labor Party were to lead the government! But later on, after I'd cooled down, I realised that we were the government and everything was fine! But when we go to the rollout, I think that 6.6 million people have now been part of the process of being vaccinated, and that's a great outcome—one in four adults. Australia has got nothing but a sense of pride in what we've been able to do compared with other areas, where hundreds of thousands of people in other nations have died. Millions of people have died from COVID, but Australia has been so blessed. We've been so fortuitous and we've also had the best government in place. It's because of the diligence of this—

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