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

It's all about how you finish the race, as I've said before in this place. What has been achieved in these many months now, despite the setbacks that we had early on in the vaccination program, which saw our expectation of being able to offer a vaccine to everybody in this country being set back some four months from what we originally anticipated, is that it has already been brought back to being able to vaccinate everybody before the end of the year. As each vaccination is demonstrating, we believe we'll be able to meet that even sooner, so the demonstration of the government's resolve has been put in place by ensuring that the vaccination rates that we are now achieving—the fact that we're able to bring forward doses, the fact that we've been able to achieve and realise additional supplies and we have more irons in the fire that will see further doses, we believe, being made available in this country—all of that demonstrates that the vaccination program's earlier challenges have been overcome. Those challenges have been overcome, whether it was the hesitancy around the AstraZeneca vaccine, which many shared, but this government didn't share, I can assure you.

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