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

If venues, businesses, airlines and other places of work seek to require their employees to be vaccinated, they have that right under the law. They have that right under the law, but it is not the Commonwealth government's policy that they should be told to do that. Wherever that is in the country, that is not the government's policy. We couldn't be clearer. We support mandatory vaccines for health workers, aged-care workers, disability workers—those who are working with vulnerable people. But when it comes to what happens in somebody's business, we believe businesses should make that decision and shouldn't be told by the government what they should be doing.

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