Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In February of this year. Even at that time, the full implications of the COVID-19 crisis were not known. Some weeks later the outlook in relation to the nature of the recovery that would occur had changed dramatically: it had gone from a V-shape to a U-shape. And it is still not clear.

The opposition, of course, is at liberty to go back and refer to comments that were made back in April, and that is fine, but they cannot do so without adding the further context of the statements that the government has made since that time, taking into account more recent information.

But I can say this: I am looking forward to the time—and, under our policies, we'll be moving there as quickly as we can—where businesses can reopen, because that is the objective, and when employees can come back into their businesses and when children will be back in all of their schools, getting their lessons in the classroom.

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