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

(—) (): I suspect a party as proud as the Liberal Party will probably be around for a fair while longer than Pauline Hanson's One Nation party, and I look forward to that. I do agree with Senator Roberts with respect to us needing to take the time, take the moment, to understand the circumstances of this new variant. That's why the government has taken the proportionate measures that it has done to ensure that we have the time to understand what the impacts of this variant might be, with respect to vaccination, with respect to transmission and with respect to the seriousness of its impact on the communities, before we continue the processes that we'd undertaken with respect to opening up. That's why we took the appropriate precautionary response, at the weekend, to say nine nations will cease access to Australia. (Time expired)