Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

to work collaboratively with the states, with the Commonwealth, across facilities, to bring many Australians home. Of course, there will still be problems, as have been experienced elsewhere, and now it's up to us and our sense of responsibility to make sure we get it right, vaccinate, manage quarantine and, hopefully, get Australia back to a position where we can avoid the spread, the transmission, of the virus.

But let's not forget that, amongst the tin politics of the opposition at the moment, there are Victorians facing really difficult challenges and choices. Seven days is not a short period of time. Many people have the scars from last year, from being locked down for up to three months under the long Victorian lockdown.

I want to give a big shout out to all those people who are going to support Victorians at this critical time: the nurses and the doctors who will provide the vaccines, if people go and get vaccinated—and we should encourage them to do so. To the parents and the teachers, critically, who will be assisting children being educated from home—and many of them faced very difficult circumstances, juggling work and other personal arrangements, last year, and now are being called upon to do it again—we say thank you. And to everybody else who is providing critical services at this time, we say thank you. But the people whom we thank the most are those who take the responsibility to protect themselves and their community by getting vaccinated. Thank you.

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