Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

South Australia. Have a nice glass of water with it, after you've had your vaccine—not that anyone drinks water from South Australian taps, and I can say that as an old Adelaide girl. You have your vaccine—seven million doses. In the last seven days we've had nearly 800,000 doses given. Like every other country in the world, vaccine rollouts have had a growth period. They're a bit slow when they start out, but they pick up the pace exponentially. In fact, to go from four million to five million doses took just nine days, and to go from five million to six million doses took 10 days, but that did include a public holiday. So maybe we can look at nine being the standard for the last two weeks for every million doses.

But we don't want to talk about actual figures in reality because that would mean those opposite need to acknowledge and accept that two-thirds—for those of you who are not good at maths, because we know what happens any time you guys get near the budget, that's 66 per cent—of all Australians over 70 are protected. Almost half—and, in fact, by today it looks like it will be half—of all Australians over 50 are protected.

We also hear scare campaigns saying, 'They haven't had their second dose.' There's eighty per cent protection after a single dose. Stop your smear and your disinformation campaign and stop scaring Australians. (Time expired)