Labor must stop ‘playing politics’ with COVID pandemic: Prime Minister

The prime minister has slammed the Labor Party for “playing politics” with the COVID-19 pandemic amid the government’s ongoing vaccine rollout. Shadow Health Minister Mark Butler criticised Prime Minister Scott Morrison during Question Time over reports the vaccine “system (is) failing,” claiming the government has got the “media strategy right” but cannot “get the vaccine delivery right”. Prime Minister Morrison hit back at Mr Butler suggesting the premise of his question sought to “undermine the vaccination program”. “The issues put forward by the shadow minister are false,” Mr Morrison said. “They're disingenuous and they seek to undermine one of the most important vaccination programs this country has ever undertaken. “I would urge the opposition to engage in this national project, of such greater importance to this country, rather than continuing to stoop into the partisanship of playing politics with the COVID pandemic.”