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

It is a function of the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. Those opposite might like to think that Australia is somehow immune to a global pandemic. Perhaps they think that the fault of there being a lockdown in New Zealand is the fault of the New Zealand Prime Minister or that the outbreaks in the United Kingdom, in the Netherlands or in other parts of the world are the function of those leaders. But what sensible people understand is that what we are going through is a global pandemic. In this country, the actions of the government, together with governments around the country, have saved 30,000 lives, and a million people are back in work. What I note this year, because I remember last year very vividly when Melbourne was going through the lockdown—

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