Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

That's exactly what we know Australians want to do: chart our way out of this pandemic. In particular, when it comes to those mum and dad small businesses around Australia, we all know that the best thing that we can do to support them at this time is to get vaccinated. Vaccinations, not lockdowns, are the answer to getting us out of the COVID-19 pandemic. We all know that by hitting the vaccination target we'll be able to reopen and we will all be able to see that light at the end of the tunnel. Small businesses, if we don't hit the vaccination targets, will close. Jobs will be lost. What we owe to every small business around Australia is to get behind the plan that has been agreed by national cabinet. That is the plan to give them the confidence they need so that they know that we're backing them every step of the way and that the country is backing them every step of the way.