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

As I indicated in my answer to Senator Roberts earlier, the position of the Australian government has always been that, through the vaccine program, vaccination should as much as possible be a voluntary process. As I also indicated in my answer to that question, Australians have overwhelmingly turned up to be vaccinated. We are at almost 92 per cent with a first dose and we're in excess of 86 per cent with a second dose. As I indicated to the chamber before, of the 508,000 Australians who are eligible for a booster dose, over 75 per cent have turned up for a vaccine