Senate debates

Thursday, 27 August 2020

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Economic Support and Recovery, COVID-19: International Cooperation

3:03 pm

Photo of Anne RustonAnne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

We will continue to work together and we will continue to share ideas with other countries as we move into the recovery phase. At the meeting, we all agreed that we would continue to share information. That is critical for all of us in our ongoing recovery—the world's recovery and our individual countries' recoveries—from COVID-19.

In addition, our officials all have agreed to continue to meet on a regular basis and to work through the challenges and discuss how me might plan to overcome them and make sure that we're learning from each other. Clearly, learning from each other will also offer us the opportunity to share with other countries the learnings that we've found to be helpful to us here in Australia. We are committed to continuing to monitor the situation as it unfolds, because we know that the best way to be able to respond to this is to remain extraordinarily agile. I have agreed to continue to meet on a regular basis with my international colleagues. Can I please put on the record my thanks to Ministers Hargan, Davies and Hussen and Sepuloni for taking the time to partake in these valuable discussion.

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