Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. Page 36 of Budget Paper No. 1 states as another assumption that 'most priority populations have been vaccinated'. Does the Treasurer maintain that most residents of disability-care facilities and most aged-care and disability staff have been fully vaccinated?

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Over 10 per cent of the population has been vaccinated. Over 30 per cent of the population of those aged over 70 has been vaccinated. As the Prime Minister said on 7:30, that is expected to reach three million across the country at the end of this week. We are rolling out the vaccine as fast as possible. We are securing extra supply. We have 5,000 points of contact between the GPs and the state and territory clinics. In Tuesday night's budget, we put billions of extra dollars into new health measures to continue our COVID health response.