Prime Minister

The majority voted in favour of disagreeing with a motion introduced by Grayndler MP and Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese (Labor), which means it failed. The motion was to suspend the usual procedural rules - known as standing orders - to let a vote happen.

Motion text

That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving the following motion immediately:

That the House:

(1) notes the:

(a) Prime Minister's refusal to take responsibility for his failures in quarantine which have led to city-wide lockdowns, state-wide lockdowns, and severe health impacts;

(b) Prime Minister's refusal to take responsibility for his failure to vaccinate aged care workers which has put frail and vulnerable aged care residents at risk;

(c) Prime Minister's refusal to take responsibility for his failure to vaccinate disability care workers which has put disability care residents at risk;

(d) Prime Minister's refusal to take responsibility for the failure of his COVIDSafe app to assist contact tracers;

(e) Prime Minister's refusal to take responsibility for the impact of him saying the vaccine rollout is not a race;

(f) Prime Minister's refusal to take responsibility for the failure of his vaccine communications;

(g) Prime Minister's refusal to take responsibility for his failure to secure sufficient doses of vaccines to vaccinate all Australians by October;

(h) Prime Minister's refusal to take responsibility for his failure to manufacture mNRA vaccines in Australia; and

(i) Prime Minister always takes responsibility for the successes of others, but not failures of his own; and

(2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to take responsibility for his failures and fix them instead of blaming everything and everyone else.