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

The Leader of the Labor Party can snarl and growl all he likes, as he has done over the course of this pandemic. He has constantly been negative when it comes to the serious challenges that our country has faced. He can seek to downplay Australians' efforts, in how we've come through this pandemic, with his constant negativity, snarling and growling, but the facts are these: on each occasion, we have worked to address the situation that we have had before us. On each and every occasion, we have sought to apply the resources—whether they be the defence forces, our own Public Service officers and those around the country—to address the needs that have been required, particularly in the aged-care sector, where our defence forces were applied in Victoria during the second wave and are now being used in a similar way with targeted interventions, not with the wholesale replacement of the aged-care workforce. If the Leader of the Opposition—the Leader of the Labor Party—were actually interested in solving the problem, he would have attended himself to the facts of those issues. The Leader of the Labor Party is all about exploiting this pandemic, not about addressing it.

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