Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Caring about global vaccine equity includes delivering—delivering on the sorts of commitments that I made explicitly clear in response to Senator Faruqi's previous question. But, in the absence of that having been heard at the other end of the chamber, let me reiterate it in very clear terms. We are committed to supplying up to 60 million vaccine doses to our region by the end of 2022—that is, 20 million vaccine doses that we have already committed to share with the Pacific and South-East Asia by mid-next year; an additional 20 million doses from Australia's own supply, to be shared by the end of next year; and up to a further 20 million doses to be procured through our funded partnership with UNICEF, also to be shared by the end of 2022. We have already shared over nine million doses across our region: 4.6 million to Indonesia, 1.5 million to Vietnam, one million to Fiji, 700,000 to the Philippines, 677,850 to Timor-Leste and 213,000 to— (Time expired)