Josh Burns (Macnamara, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This virus is everywhere, and the Prime Minister of Australia is nowhere. He's isolating by himself after he went on a family trip through the UK. And now we in Victoria are the latest victims of the failures of the federal government to get an adequate, fast, urgent vaccine rollout in this country. It is hard to think of a bigger, more consequential policy failure in Australia's peacetime history than this government's failure on vaccine rollouts. We are a national disgrace in the pace with which this government and this health minister and this Prime Minister are rolling out the vaccine. There is uncertainty and devastation for businesses and for Australians who are suffering because all this government are interested in doing is coming into this place, grandstanding and patting themselves on the back; doing press conferences and doing announcements; and not actually delivering the vaccines that Australia needs to get out of this virus. It is devastating. It is devastating for Victorians. It is devastating for New South Wales. It is devastating for this country, and this Prime Minister is doing nothing to help. He is just patting himself on the back, and we deserve better.