Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

That is the advantage of hindsight. I am being quite transparent in saying that where the data changes, where the virus changes, we need to adapt our response.

Those opposite can be smug in their hindsight and be critical, but no country in the world has got everything right. There are few countries that can claim this: one of the lowest rates of fatality and deaths as a result of COVID-19 in the world and one of the strongest economies coming through COVID-19 in the world. Those countries that have had particularly low rates of infection and low rates of fatalities have also had low rates of vaccination—New Zealand is another example, South Korea is another example and Japan is another example. When it comes to having low death rates and a strong economy, if those are the things that we're desiring to have, then those are what the Australian people are achieving. We will now add a strong vaccination response to that. Australians will come forward because it's in their personal health interests and they will do it because it's in their communities' interests, their families' interests and their national interests. They won't be doing it as a grab for cash.

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