Katie Allen (Higgins, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Members opposite really need to stop talking down our health response. Quite frankly, it's appalling that you can't recognise that Australia has done exceptionally well. We have had mortality rates across the community that are the envy of the world. It is something that we should feel proud of as Australians.

As a federal government, we have also delivered fever clinics, testing clinics, ADF support and AUSMAT support, and we have delivered in seven of the eight states and territories an incredibly low community transmission rate. Despite that, we've had a breakdown in quarantine in Victoria—which is unfortunate—followed by poor contact tracing.

Mr Husic interjecting—

There's no point worrying about whether you blame them or not; it is just a matter of fact. Every Victorian knows that we've had a failure in Victoria. Every Victorian knows that we have had to take it on the chin that we've had lockdowns. In fact, it is quite disrespectful of you to say those thing, because, in Victoria, we're doing it really tough.

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