Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Well, it's a rare day indeed that the member for Goldstein can't even work himself up into some sort of outrage at the Labor Party or talk about how magnificent his government is, because even he knows that this government is to blame for its failure to roll out the vaccine and to set up proper quarantine facilities. That five-minute contribution, ladies and gentlemen, was the admission of defeat on behalf of this government.

Our communities in Victoria are going back into a lockdown that they would not have had to go into if there had been a better vaccination rollout and a proper national quarantine facility. And can I just say: calling something 'the national resilience centre' doesn't actually solve quarantine; all it does is to give a facility that already existed a Utopia sort of name to roll out and repeat: 'national centre for resilience' or 'national resilience centre'!

What does that even mean? It doesn't mean a national quarantine strategy and facilities that this government, this Prime Minister, should have been putting in place last year.

Mr Simmonds interjecting—

Who cares what it's called, Member for Ryan? Do it. Set it up properly.

Mr Simmonds interjecting—

I take the member for Ryan's interjection.

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