Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I promised my community that I would spend this week fighting to fix the vaccine rollout, for fit-for-purpose quarantine facilities and for financial support for Victorians during our lockdown. I shouldn't have to do that, but I do, because we have a Prime Minister who likes to insist that the vaccine rollout is not a race. He does so because his government is totally and utterly losing the race. It's Australians, it's my community, who are the victims of that failure. We were told that all aged-care residents and workers would be vaccinated by March. Well, it's June, and the Prime Minister has well and truly lost that race. It's the frontline workers in aged care and disability care who are the victims of that failure. Shift workers who look after some of the most vulnerable people in our community have been abandoned by the Prime Minister, left to fend for themselves. If they were lucky and there was vaccination at their centre and there was some vaccine left over, they got it. Otherwise, they had to try to find an available GP when only 50 vaccines a week were being supplied by this government to GPs. Today we hear the minister doesn't even know how many aged-care workers have been vaccinated. It's like Yes Minister without the humour. Lucky it's not a race to provide Australians with a COVIDSafe app. Lucky it's apparently not a race to have fit-for-purpose quarantine, notwithstanding there have been 17 breaches and my community is in lockdown. The Prime Minister has abandoned my community and has not— (Time expired)