Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, Australia has got this sort of capability and capacity. Choosing the right path to realise that capability and capacity is the job of a responsible government. To ensure that Australians get the best, most sustainable deal, the deal that provides for a 10-year end-to-end capability that can not merely produce a domestic market that's scalable from zero vaccines to 25 million plus in a short period of time for a cutting-edge technology but is also able to provide scalable production for export markets and a breadth of goods using this cutting-edge technology—including therapeutics, potentially, for cancer treatments, for which mRNA had its genesis, and for cardiovascular disease—means you have to have a thorough, thoughtful process. That process means having submissions for fully costed proposals for end-to-end onshore population-scale mRNA capability. It means ensuring the proposals show demonstrated— (Time expired)

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