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

It is true that through this pandemic the government took the action to close the borders right at the outset; in particular, we closed the borders to China, and we were criticised for being racist at the time. That helped save Australia from this pandemic over the course of these last few years. The government did move to put in place JobKeeper, to support apprentices, to put the cash flow boost in place, which means we've come through this pandemic with one of the strongest economies in the advanced world. And, yes, we took the decision in August 2020 to ensure that we manufactured the AstraZeneca vaccine here in Australia, where we could manufacture it, because other vaccines were not able to be manufactured in this country or so many other countries around the world. We did all of that, and we now have the highest vaccination rates in the world.

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