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

The advice that has come forward, whether from the Chief Medical Officer or General Frewen, is that cash payments for jabs—a cash splash for jabs—is not their advice. It's not their advice. It's not the advice given to us that we should spend $6 billion splashing cash to those who've already received the vaccine. At least at this point, they would be paying out over $2 billion to people who have already had the vaccine. This policy, although being friendless from those who are expert in this area, including from those advising the government, now pretends to be able to time travel—that you can make a payment to someone now and that would somehow have influenced their decision three months ago.

This is a policy that has put forward by the Leader of the Opposition which is ill considered, ill informed and ill disciplined. This is a policy that he has not sought to consult on and he has not sought to take proper advice on. He hasn't even had the opportunity to actually sit down with those responsible for delivering the national vaccine plan and be informed of that before he's gone off with this idea. I note that those opposite, to quote them, refer to this as 'Anthony's idea'. That's how they refer to it; I'm only quoting them.

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