Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

is Labor in Western Australia, and—my Western Australian Liberal colleagues would understand this—these are just more Labor lies. Let me be very clear, Senator Pratt, for the Channel 7, the Channel 9, the ABC and the Channel 10 news tonight: the Commonwealth will not challenge Western Australia's border closures in the High Court. And we will not, in any way, support Clive Palmer. Can I be clearer? I do not believe so. What we are doing is working with the states and territories through the national plan. That is what we are doing: working with the states and territories to implement the national plan to reopen. And, on any analysis—and my Western Australian colleagues would agree with me—we have actually done incredibly well in Western Australia. Mr McGowan has done incredibly well in keeping COVID-19 out of Western Australia. But the states and territories have now agreed to the national plan. And when 80 per cent of Australians and Western Australians are vaccinated—and I'm so pleased to see Western Australians, every day more and more of them, putting their arms out and saying, 'I will be vaccinated'—the question becomes, for Mr McGowan: if not at 80 per cent, then when? That's all it comes down to. If not at 80 per cent, then when?

Honourable senators interjecting—