Coronavirus Australia live: Victoria announces five-day aged care vaccination blitz after three new Covid cases

This Treasurer, this Prime Minister, this government has provided more support to Victoria than any previous government, Mr Speaker. More support than any previous government.

I know, I know the member Rankin’s maths aren’t too good… He has been doing the numbers for some time, and he still can’t even get to two, Mr Speaker.

He can’t get to two.

But the reality is, we have provided, we have provided the Morrison government has provided more than $45 billion already to families and businesses across Victoria.

Now the state Treasurer of Victoria has confirmed that the State Government has delivered $13 billion, so that is more, that is less than one-third…

That is less than a third than what we had the federal level have delivered. The people of Victoria have received on a per capita basis more from the Morrison government over the course of Covid than any other state or territory.

More than any other state or territory. And we have provided more than $28 billion of JobKeeper payments to the people of Victoria.

We have supported…cash flow boost to the people of Victoria. We have provided around $5 billion in JobKeeper coronavirus supplement payment.

Around $3 billion in direct payments to veterans, to carers, to pensioners across Victoria.

And I remind the Honourable member that Victoria is not the only state that has gone into lockdown after the end of JobKeeper. His own state in Queensland, in Brisbane, saw stay-at-home orders in late March, early April.

We know that the Perth metropolitan area and the Peel region also saw between 24 April and 27 April stay-at-home orders, Mr Speaker, and now in Victoria.

According to the Victorian government this is a 7-day lockdown.

And it is a short lockdown, and we anticipate it at the time of the budget that there would be outbreaks, and indeed that they would be short lockdown.

That is why we provided an unprecedented amount of support in this budget and in previous budgets, including $41 billion in direct economic support to support and strengthen our recovery, the state of Victoria, as well as across the nation.