Senate debates

Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Vaccination

2:50 pm

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

Again, the Labor Party come in here and make an allegation that simply isn't true. There is a range of data that's being provided, supported and tracked. As I've indicated to the chamber, the vaccination of children has only been available since 9 August this year. A full vaccination cycle of three weeks has not yet passed. So for the Labor Party to come in here and ask that and imply that the data's not available is, quite frankly, dishonest. They know it can't have been made available yet because it can't be collected yet, because the time frames for collecting it haven't occurred yet.

Every single member of the Australian community is important to this government. It's only the Labor Party campaigning against the government— (Time expired)

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