‘Stop playing politics’: PM slams Labor for ‘hoping for the worst’

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the Labor Party consistently “hopes for the worst”, but has called on the Opposition to get behind the Commonwealth’s vaccine program. The Prime Minister used his routine post-National Cabinet meeting to defend his announcement of more Pfizer vaccines to be made available in July. Mr Morrison what he thought about Labor’s response to the Pfizer announcement, and the Prime Minister did not hold his punches. “Labor is always hoping for the worst in the middle of a pandemic, this is very disappointing,” he said. “They are wrong. We've been able to bring forward these important doses out of our contracted program which means they're available now, in July. “I don't understand why Labor always hopes for the worst. I mean, they hope that 100,000, 150,000 people have lost their job at the end of JobKeeper and they were wrong. “They should just get behind the program and stop trying to play politics.”