Patrick Gorman (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Western Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Australians have been rickrolled by this Prime Minister. He has given up on them, he has let them down and it's clear that the government will hurt Western Australians at any opportunity. In Western Australia, just 22,944 vaccines have been administered. The government have known for more than a year that they would need to administer a vaccine program in every state of the Commonwealth. At one point it might have been that they didn't know what to do, because Gladys Berejiklian had a whisper in the Prime Minister's ear and said, 'I think you should put New South Wales ahead of the queue'—here's the article where she said, 'I think we should put New South Wales ahead of the queue.' But we still wait, day after day.

Then, today, we saw in the West Australian newspaper, a great newspaper, Senator Michaelia Cash saying, 'The coalition stands behind its record.' Well, it's good that she's standing behind their record rather than behind a whiteboard. Their record in Western Australia is terrible. We have the fake money promised by the member for Tangney for the Roe 8 project.

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