Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I think that is an unreasonable proposition. We are dealing with an unbelievably hard-hitting global health pandemic, with devastating impacts all around the world. In Australia, by any objective measure—I wouldn't expect the opposition to be objective; we can understand why the opposition is throwing rocks at those that are making the decisions. I understand that that is the way that you go about these things. But the truth is, in dealing with this, we are winning the fight against the virus and we are putting ourselves in a position where we can start easing restrictions and start getting the economy growing again so that businesses around Australia can start hiring people again and so that Australians can again be in a position to build sustainable livelihoods and lift their living standards, and here you are continuing to nitpick in a partisan fashion. It's rather disappointing.