Lisa Chesters (Bendigo, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm sure many Australians were shocked to learn that on Saturday two Germans were able to enter the country in Sydney and fly on to Melbourne without being quarantined. In fact, they weren't detected of not having entered quarantine until they were in the public area of the Melbourne Airport. Some media reports said it was a clerk at a car hire agency, others said it was a security guard. Regardless, these people were not picked up until they'd got to the public area of Melbourne Airport. They were hardly caught and detected through a failsafe within the border control system, as the Minister for Health suggested on Sunday morning. The minister went on to say:

There are multiple rings of containment within the quarantine and border system and, ultimately, these passengers have been picked up within those rings of containment.

The last time I checked, outside Melbourne Airport Terminal 3 is not quarantine or a ring of containment. What is it with this government about spinning the opposite of truth? Maybe, next term when this parliament gets together in the new year, we need a book of Morrison government antonyms to help the Australian people understand exactly what this government is saying. When they say quarantine, they actually mean outside Melbourne Airport. When they say casuals are safe and they're going to protect them, what they actually mean is they're stripping rates away. This government is nothing but spin, and it is putting the lives of Australians at risk. (Time expired)