Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] We have at all times worked with vaccine suppliers across the globe to ensure that we have capacity to meet the demands of the vaccination rollout for the Australian people. As I've just indicated to you, we approved the dataset for the Moderna vaccine in 23 days. We took the approach all through the rollout of the vaccines that we would utilise vaccines that were fully approved by the TGA and assessed through ATAGI so that we could guarantee to the Australian people that they were getting access to an efficacious and safe vaccine. We saw that as important for vaccine confidence in the Australian community. We have taken every step to ensure that Australians could be confident in the vaccines that they were taking. They went through the full and proper approval process.