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

As we stood up for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, others sought to cast aspersions on it—but not our government. We continued on and saw millions upon millions of Australians continue to receive those AstraZeneca vaccines, which remain a crucial component of the program even now. Even now, that AstraZeneca vaccine, of course, is so important, and it's manufactured—Australian made—right here in our country, in Melbourne, and I want to thank all those workers down at CSL. I have had the opportunity to meet them on many occasions and thank them for the great work that they have done of ensuring that our country could be vaccinated.

Over 10 million, or thereabouts, AstraZeneca vaccines have been achieved, and they were achieved because our government took the decision last August, a year ago, to ensure that we could make them here in Australia, and there are millions upon millions of lives that have been saved as a result of that decision.

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