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

I refer you to the comments I made from the Lodge when I conducted a press conference on these issues the other day. Members of this parliament are accountable for their own actions and their own decisions. They're accountable for their own actions and their own decisions. I note the member for Dawson has made his own decisions about the next election. But, if these are the matters the opposition wish to raise, why have they selected a candidate for the Labor Party in Higgins who talks down AstraZeneca vaccines? If that is the standard they wish to raise, it is them that are setting this standard. If they want to have a candidate in Higgins, unlike the great member for Higgins we have in this chamber—a great medical doctor who has tremendous experience and has been a key source of advice—

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