Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services) Share this | Hansard source

It is really disappointing that the Labor Party continue to not listen to the answers that are quite genuinely provided to them and continue their reckless campaign to undermine the rollout strategy that we are running. The recklessness of the Labor Party in trying to undermine the confidence of Australians in our vaccine strategy really should be condemned. We have said consistently that the rollout and availability of vaccine would be dependent on approval by the Therapeutic Goods Administration. We now fortunately have the Pfizer vaccine approved. Once it's approved it can then be shipped; it can be tested by the TGA to ensure that it will do what it said it would do and that it is safe to provide to Australians. We're now going through the process of the approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine, and we will continue to work with the companies and the TGA on a safe rollout of our— (Time expired)