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

I don't accept the premise of the question because I don't accept that children will remain unprotected. Vaccinating the rest of the population does in itself provide a level of protection to the rest of the population that hasn't been vaccinated because it actually limits the transmission of the disease. That's the point of having the targets. So we will continue to follow the health advice with respect to the application of vaccines to the Australian community. And as I've said on a number of occasions today, the advice from ATAGI with respect to the availability of COVID-19 vaccinations to children between the ages of 12 and 15 will be available to the government and to the Australian community very soon.