Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. Yesterday on Insiders, Mr Morrison said that high COVID case numbers shouldn't delay Australia's reopening: 'At some point, you need to make that gear change, and that is done at 70 per cent.' Is it the Morrison-Joyce government's position that New South Wales, which recorded its worst day on Sunday, with 830 new cases, should open up when it hits a rate of 70 per cent vaccination, irrespective of case numbers?