Senator HUGHES (New South Wales) (15:20): Seriously, I don't know where you guys live, because it's certainly not in Australia with the rest of us. It's just extraordinary, this constant talking-down that we see of Australia's efforts around the entire COVID pandemic. We know that you don't understand the basic economics of the pandemic and all the programs we put in place to ensure Australians were able to stay connected to their employers. We've now got less unemployment than we had pre the pandemic. And that was all at a time when, over there, those naysayers were all, 'Don't end JobKeeper; the economy's going to fall off the cliff.' Guess what? It keeps getting better. And that's because of the leadership of the Morrison government, with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. When we come to the vaccine rollout, the 20/20 'hindsight vision' displayed by those opposite is breathtaking. I'm just so impressed by how you are all, apparently, expert epidemiologists and knew clearly before the actual experts what was going to happen with regard to the vaccines! In fact, in last March who would have thought we'd have a vaccine by this stage? This has been the most incredible rollout—and the efforts by science and research to ensure that we could move towards a vaccine at all. In Australia we have four vaccines lined up and, by the time we get to October, there will be two million doses per week of the Pfizer. I had my first Pfizer jab, in New South Wales—because Gladys Berejiklian continues to demonstrate a gold standard in every single way. I am not in the over-50 category. I would like that on the record! Maybe I should say it again: I qualified for the Pfizer, and the Pfizer was for ages 40 to 49. You don't feel smug about it anymore now that it goes up to 59, but back then in New South Wales it was the 40- to 49-year-olds who were entitled to the Pfizer. I've had the first jab and I'm looking forward to my second jab next week. That would make me just one of 140,000 Australians who received a dose of the vaccine, because that's how many received it yesterday. And, if today we see another 140,000 Australians receive a dose of the vaccine, that will put us at seven million vaccine doses that have been delivered. We hear from over there so much misinformation, and it is absolutely so dangerous to continue to propagate these lies and this deceit to the Australian people. It is creating more fear and uncertainty, and you should be ashamed. The reality is that the vaccine is not available to under-16s. So, when we talk about the percentage of the population, let's remove the under-16s, shall we? And most states are making it available to only the over-50s. So we need to remove everyone under 16. Except in New South Wales and, I think, a couple of other places that are allowing those in their 40s— An honourable senator interjecting— Senator HUGHES: South Australia. Have a nice glass of water with it, after you've had your vaccine—not that anyone drinks water from South Australian taps, and I can say that as an old Adelaide girl. You have your vaccine—seven million doses. In the last seven days we've had nearly 800,000 doses given. Like every other country in the world, vaccine rollouts have had a growth period. They're a bit slow when they start out, but they pick up the pace exponentially. In fact, to go from four million to five million doses took just nine days, and to go from five million to six million doses took 10 days, but that did include a public holiday. So maybe we can look at nine being the standard for the last two weeks for every million doses. But we don't want to talk about actual figures in reality because that would mean those opposite need to acknowledge and accept that two-thirds—for those of you who are not good at maths, because we know what happens any time you guys get near the budget, that's 66 per cent—of all Australians over 70 are protected. Almost half—and, in fact, by today it looks like it will be half—of all Australians over 50 are protected. We also hear scare campaigns saying, 'They haven't had their second dose.' There's eighty per cent protection after a single dose. Stop your smear and your disinformation campaign and stop scaring Australians. (Time expired)