Having represented a part of Western Sydney that had to live through a very long lockdown, with very different sets of rules for the west compared to the east, where a city was divided and the health advice said you didn’t need to do that, I understand full well that people don’t want to face the prospect of another lockdown or going through that and want to have their freedoms.

But I’m very mindful of this, this lame political line the Prime Minister has been putting out that people will want their freedoms back. They would have if the federal government had done their job properly, if they had seriously undertaken a vaccine program that would get people vaccinated early.

A public health program that would have backed it in, a public education campaign to potentially reduce some of the stuff that we’ve seen going around, sunning things about the vaccine that simply doesn’t stack up.

If that stuff had been done thoroughly and quickly, then maybe we wouldn’t have had to have had the lockdowns as long and widespread as they were.

So the stuff that’s been said now by a federal Liberal government that didn’t do its job on vaccines, we are seeing a rewriting of the history that’s going on. They’ve still got to get their job and act together on local mRNA manufacture that I said a year ago we would be right to go right now.

All we’re seeing is an announcement about future announcements that don’t end up providing any substance and we still have got no local mRNA manufacture of vaccine which would be important, with respect to variants, which will be important with respect to boosters and it should be happening in line of what they’ve said to us a year ago.