Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I'm happy to add to the Prime Minister's answer and happy to respectfully correct the statements made by the Leader of the Opposition. The advice that we have from the Department of Health, and, in particular, from the Northern Territory government, is: 'The 2,000 capacity will be reached on 13, 22 and 31 August.' Numbers obviously rise and fall as people enter with different flights. But we have been working very closely with the Northern Territory health minister, Natasha Fyles—somebody we've found extremely capable and cooperative, as we have the Northern Territory Chief Minister when dealing with him. Just to repeat: the presumption in the Leader of the Opposition's question was, respectfully, categorically incorrect. The 2,000 capacity will be reached in Howard Springs on 13, 22 and 31 August.

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