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

The Commonwealth government has established the national resilience facility, and so the questioner is in err to suggest that the Commonwealth has not established those facilities. We indeed have, and they were there to support the broader quarantine arrangements that were put in place necessarily with all the states and territories because of the sheer volume of arrivals that would come back to Australia and need to be accommodated in that way. The Labor Party seems to think that we would have somehow established facilities to accommodate 100,000 people around the country. That's simply absurd. So we came up with a practical, innovative solution, a solution that was actually followed by the New Zealand government, and I don't hear those opposite criticising the Labour government in New Zealand about having hotel quarantine. But they're happy to criticise their own government for doing it. They're happy to criticise the Australian government for taking exactly the same response to the New Zealand government, which tells you everything about this Labor opposition when it comes to the handling of the pandemic.

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