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

Outbreaks occur, and, as a result of those outbreaks—as the member will recall, it was a result of a limousine driver not wearing a mask in Sydney. That's what caused that outbreak, and from there it went to other states. That's what we know. And we know that the national vaccine strategy in place had us reaching the high levels of vaccination rates by the middle of October this year, which was reached. What we see from those opposite is that they want to say they support measures on the pandemic, and then, on the other hand, they oppose measures on the pandemic. They have each-way-bet politics on the pandemic.

What I know about the Australian economy is that we have had one of the strongest economies coming through this pandemic of any advanced nation in the world, and what is happening now is 350,000 jobs came back into that economy in the last five weeks as we've opened up and as the economy springs back— (Time expired)

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