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

I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question. The policies that were put in place by the government as part of the cooperative arrangements we had with the states and territories ensured that back in March 2020 we were able to quickly put in place a system of quarantine that enabled Australia to have one of the lowest fatality rates in the world in relation to COVID. Those quarantine arrangements were of course agreed with all the states and territories and strongly supported back in March. But it wasn't just the state and territory leaders who supported those arrangements on quarantine, because, on 27 March, the Leader of the Opposition tweeted this: 'Australian Labor supports new quarantine laws using hotels for overseas arrivals.' That's what the Leader of the Opposition said. As usual, what we have from the Leader of the Opposition is he said he supports hotel quarantine when we're announcing it, and then he comes into this place and says it's not appropriate—an each-way bet on every single position. If you don't like what the Leader of the Opposition says one day—

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