Coronavirus Australia live update: four new Covid cases as Victoria lockdown begins; Jodi McKay resigns as NSW Labor leader

This latest lockdown is the first since the government ripped away jobkeeper, ripped away the economic supports during this pandemic.

We know from the job statistics that after that happened thousands of jobs across Australia were lost and 64,000 Australian simply gave up looking for work at all. Victoria was hardest hit of all of the states in the ripping away of jobkeeper.

In this lockdown, Scott Morrison has left Victorians without any economic support … He has been far too quick to rip away jobkeeper and far too slow to roll out the vaccines.

Hundreds and thousands of aged care residents in Victoria remain without full protection because of Scott Morrison’s failures on the vaccine rollout.

Scott Morrison needs to come clean with the Australian people about his failures on vaccines and about the failure of the hotel quarantine system, instead of continuing to push out these dodgy and misleading statistics.