This Royal Commission is looking at the practical things that must be done to keep Australians safe and safer for longer in hot dry summers - conditions in which Australians will live into the future. Prime Minister Scott Morrison More Quotes by Prime Minister Scott Morrison More Quotes From Prime Minister Scott Morrison We are six weeks into a six month programme, the reason we're reopening is we've put protections in place, and it'll take us some time to reopen our economy and get it back to a point where it can start supporting Australians again. Prime Minister Scott Morrison You can stay under the doona forever. You'll never face any danger, but we've got to get out from under the doona at some time. Prime Minister Scott Morrison It's a pretty honest question, with an honest intent and an honest motive. And I'm seeing more and more support for that position. Prime Minister Scott Morrison It's not directed at anyone, we just want to know what happened so it doesn't happen again. Prime Minister Scott Morrison It will be illegal for information to go out of that data store to any other person other than that for whom the whole thing is designed, and that is to support the health worker in the state to be able to undertake the contact tracing. Prime Minister Scott Morrison We will be seeking the cooperation and support of Australians to download the app to help our health workers, to protect our community and help get our economy going again. Prime Minister Scott Morrison I will be calling on Australians to do it, frankly, as a matter of national service. Prime Minister Scott Morrison We want to be very clear with Australians, baseline restrictions we have in place at the moment, there are no plans to change those for the next four weeks. Prime Minister Scott Morrison This is part of the hibernation strategy of ensuring we keep people connected with their businesses and with their jobs, so on the other side of this, Australia can bounce back stronger. Prime Minister Scott Morrison I am going to fight for every job I can. Prime Minister Scott Morrison I dont want to see our children lose an entire year of their education. Prime Minister Scott Morrison There are parts of this country that it would not be wise for people to visit, just as it is important for people to not visit aged care facilities in large numbers, it is also important they're not visiting remote indigenous communities or remote parts of the country. Prime Minister Scott Morrison We're a continent surrounded by the ocean. Our waterways are our lifeblood. The same is true for our Pacific family... this is such a big issue for our part of the world. Prime Minister Scott Morrison We are working on some projects with the education sector... but lets not forget our universities are well capitalized. Prime Minister Scott Morrison The continuing coronavirus infections in mainland China make it necessary to continue the travel restrictions on foreign nationals entering Australia for a further week to 29 February. Prime Minister Scott Morrison Our current measures are working, they are effective, they are doing the job, that's why this afternoon we have agreed to accept recommendations to maintain the ban on entry restrictions. Prime Minister Scott Morrison But I stress there is rather a limited window here and we are moving very, very swiftly to ensure we can put this plan together and put the operation together. Prime Minister Scott Morrison We have taken a decision this morning to prepare a plan for an operation to provide some assisted departures for isolated and vulnerable Australians in Wuhan and the Hubei province. Prime Minister Scott Morrison The response to the bushfire situation has been unprecedented with thousands of volunteer and paid responders working around the clock, day and night, week after week to protect property and save lives. Prime Minister Scott Morrison And, as we have been reminded especially in these most recent times, stories of drought, bushfires, adapting to the many challenges that come with living in this great continent, but we would have it no other way as Australians because we love this land, its beauty and, yes, we know its terror, in all of its riches and all of its blessings, and we are a free, diverse and accepting people. Prime Minister Scott Morrison
