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

I thank the member for Curtin for her question. The news in New South Wales today, for all of us who are from New South Wales—but not just New South Wales; I'm sure for the member for Curtin as well—is heavy news: 356 cases today. There are 297 in hospital. There are 60 in ICU in New South Wales, including 28 on ventilators. There have been 30 deaths this year in New South Wales, and that includes three in the past 24 hours.

The national plan that we have championed sets our pathway out of this, and every Australian has a role to play in every single phase of that plan. Right now we are in that suppression phase—that suppression phase that seeks to minimise as best as we possibly can this delta strain which has completely changed the response that is needed to address COVID. Delta has changed everything; Australians understand that.

Ms Collins interjecting—

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