Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to start by thanking the frontline health staff who have been doing so much throughout the Illawarra, the Southern Highlands and the South Coast, against all the odds, to vaccinate Australians in this region, to test them for suspected COVID cases and to do everything to keep them safe. They haven't been thanked sufficiently. They've been put under enormous pressure. There are high expectations of them. They have been given the job of delivering a vaccine when the information and the supply of that vaccine are so tenuous.

We were advised this morning by the public health network that around 50 practices across the region will be provided with the Pfizer vaccine—about 6,000 doses per week. But what the region and the health professionals do not know is how many people have already had it. The Commonwealth knows this, and maybe the state knows it, but the locals who need the information to plan the rollout do not know it. So we're asking the Prime Minister to do the right thing and provide the information and the vaccine to those people who are in the front line, delivering the safety that we all need.

Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It being 1 pm, the debate is interrupted in accordance with the resolution of the House earlier today.

Question agreed to.

Federation Chamber adjourned a t 13:00