"I've said from the outset that we're managing two crises here. We're managing a health crisis with the pandemic and we're managing the economic recession that has flowed from that and I have always addressed them as twin crises and it has always been a very difficult task to balance out those two issues.
"We see quite clearly that if the virus and the pandemic moves into community transmission, the havoc that it causes and we can't just pretend that's not the case. It is the case. It is a serious pandemic. It has a death rate in Australia more than five times the flu.
"We've got hundreds of Australians who have passed away so it's a very serious health issue. So that's important to recognise.
"But we support health measures and we support restrictions that meet health objectives and it has always been the Commonwealth's position to follow the medical advice in these areas. That advice is interrogated. That advice is worked through.
"We understand that medical experts are not experts when it comes to the economy and industrial practices and things of that nature, and they're not the ones we look to on those matters.
"At the end of the day, the system we have in this country is it's a federation, and states have complete and total control over those types of restrictions.
"Now, as a Commonwealth we seek to influence that and we provided significant input over the course of these last week and particularly recent days, and I'm pleased that there have been some changes to the implementation of those measures, and where further changes are needed people can be assured that the Commonwealth would be pushing those issues quite strongly.
"But the way we're doing that is by working in to the government in Victoria and seeking to do it that way. I don't see a great advantage of engaging in that process in some sort of public spectacle. I don't think that would be good for public confidence. I don't think that would be good for public assurance.
"Regardless of which way you vote, it doesn't matter whether you're a Liberal supporter or a Labor supporter, the virus certainly doesn't discriminate and is seeking to cause its havoc wherever it can, so we need to continue to have a balanced response that looks at the economic and health issues but the health issues in Victoria, I have to stress, are very, very serious."
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