Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party, Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

Our Prime Minister recently said that helping to vaccinate the Pacific is both a moral necessity and an economic necessity, and indeed it is. That's why we've committed more than $750 million to supporting vaccine access for our region. We're delivering it through four pathways. There's $130 million for the COVAX Facility, which has already distributed over 15 million doses to South-East Asia and the Pacific. There's $523 million to help countries in the Pacific and South-East Asia access and roll out vaccines. There's $100 million under the Quad Vaccine Partnership, focusing on last-mile delivery. Finally, and most directly, from Australia's own supply, we will share at least 20 million doses in our region. We've already delivered almost 360,000 doses, including 250,000 to Fiji, 70,000 to Timor-Leste, almost 19,000 to PNG, 13,000 to the Solomon Islands and 7,000 to Tuvalu. Australia is leading the delivery of vaccines across the Pacific for the health security and prosperity of Australia and that of our region. (Time expired)