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

I was making reference to the cautious approach that the government have taken when we've been taking advice and rolling out the national vaccine program. He rightly refers to those comments being made in March. It is a very different situation that we're in now, and those comments are not comments I have repeated since that time, and there is a reason for that—because have continued to ramp up the response to the national vaccine program. Yesterday we had another record day.

I acknowledge, as I have done to the whole country, that we have had challenges in the early parts of this national vaccine program, and I have said sorry to the country, for we were not able to be where we had hoped to be at that point. The Leader of the Opposition may wish to continue to pursue that, but the Australian people know I have been very upfront with them about this. Not only do I take responsibility for the problems that we've had; I take responsibility for fixing them, which is what we have done. Now, as the program rolls out, and as we roll towards reaching those targets, I know I can have great confidence that Australians will be able to reach those targets. The Leader of the Opposition has no confidence in the Australian people. He thinks he needs to splash cash at them to do the right thing by themselves, their families and their country—

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