Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I feel like I've entered a parallel universe. The topic of this debate is the impact of the government's failures in the pandemic. We've had four government speakers now tell us, one after the other, how well everything is going! That's all the Prime Minister has had to say for the last two weeks—it's going terrifically well! What a great job we've done! There's a national emergency. Sydney, our biggest city, is in a never-ending lockdown, with people dying every day and fighting for their lives. My home town of Melbourne is in its sixth lockdown and people are scared, desperate to get a vaccine. They can't get one.

And this foolish motormouth, the member for Higgins—I wrote down her quotes: 'Well, the government is delivering the outcomes every Australian needs and requires.' Then, 'The government is doing a very good job.' She said, 'We've dealt with this crisis in such a good way that all Australians should be proud.'

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