Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I know I have only a couple of minutes before we move to adjournment. I am looking to the future. I'm looking to the future of this country and to the health of our population. In order to do that, we need to get the plan right, and that plan is not right, because it does not include vaccinating. Importantly, there are no targets for young people in the national plan. The government says we're going to open up when we get to 80 per cent. But 80 per cent is actually only 64 per cent of the entire population.

Children and young people under the age of 16 are the ones who are now getting COVID in large numbers. In Victoria alone, 112 children under the age of 10 have COVID, as do 112 between the ages of 10 and 19. Today, there are over 200—I think it is—children in New South Wales, yet children are not included in our targets. Until we include children in our targets, we will not get properly to 80 per cent, and if—