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

As we indicated to the Select Committee on COVID-19 last week, that data is not available to us at this point in time because of lags in reporting through the state committees of births, deaths and marriages—

To ensure that we can receive that data—as you've said, Senator Keneally—we've put in place a taskforce to pull together that data and provide it to the community and to the parliament in a more timely way. It's very important information for us to all understand. But, in terms of the boosters, in the context of the boosters, we started the booster program on 8 November last year. On 12 November or thereabouts, we got advice to bring the dates forward, and on Christmas Eve we got advice to bring it forward even further, which we have done. (Time expired)