Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Our national plan is about safely opening up and safely ensuring that Australia can return to a greater level of pre-COVID normality than was the case. It's about a plan to provide confidence for business and confidence that states doing it tough right now, like New South Wales, can see restrictions ease as vaccination rates climb, but equally confidence that states like my own—South Australia—Western Australia or elsewhere, which have continued to successfully suppress COVID-19 in highly suppressive ways, are equally able to see a normalisation, including ultimately a normalisation of travel arrangements, as they too hit higher and higher vaccination rates. How Australians can help us get there is to keep turning out in record numbers and getting vaccinated. Yesterday we saw huge numbers of vaccinations occur across the country yet again, with more than 330,000 doses administered, running at a per capita rate in excess of what the UK or the US have achieved at any point of their vaccination rollouts. It's a rate we're determined to help continue. (Time expired)