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

The assertion put forward by the questioner is completely false. It is just completely false. If the Labor Party cared to pay any attention to what was going on, they would know that for months and months and months the secretary of the Department of Health has been providing regular updates to the premiers, the chief ministers and me, upgrading views about the status of the public hospital system and the public health system and their response capacity to the COVID-19 pandemic. That has been happening since the outbreak of the pandemic, and to suggest otherwise is just a deliberate attempt by the Labor Party to undermine public confidence in the COVID response.

It is becoming a very regular theme from the Labor Party to undermine the response. They're for and against JobKeeper. They undermine the economic measures. They undermine the serious investment made by the Commonwealth—some $6 billion—to support public hospitals.

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