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12.52am BST

Birmingham says he is confident that plenty of Pfizer doses are on the way:

We will see a marked step up in terms of availability of the Pfizer vaccine, from around 300,000 doses a week up to an average of 600,000 doses a week and further increased forecast in September.

So, young Australians should have confidence that they will see a full opening up in the months to come, and that may even be sooner than months, but we do have to continue just to make sure we work through the different priority stages of the rollout that has seen more than 8 million doses administered to date to Australians, and has seen some 70% of over-70s receive their first dose, 50% of over-50s receive their first dose.

12.46am BST

On the topic of purpose-built quarantine facilities, the federal government has committed to creating three across the country, but these will likely be built from scratch, raising criticism from some state premiers who want exsisting commonwealth facilities transformed in order to have them operating sooner.

Insiders host David Spears:

The proposal in Queensland for a purpose-built facility at the Wellcamp Airport at Toowoomba - that’s been on the table since last week. Apparently only will take 12 weeks to put it together, 600 beds. Why hasn’t it happened?

That facility cannot meet the criteria that have been worked out in terms of approximate to an international airport and proximity to health and hospital facilities and that’s why we’ve proposed an alternative site with the Queensland Government and we expect that move into the different stages of feasibility assessment, as we’ve done with the Victoria Government...

It might not be perfect, but given the situation we’re in and the thousands of Australians overseas, “We are going to halve the intake,” surely you will do what you can to make it happen?

Around 600,000 people returned since hotel quarantine, around 300,000 since March of last year. Australia has done an incredible Jo be to have people return whilst continuing to suppress the virus and keep it out of the community, so it has been a very successful model to date, that was the model that could be stood up as fast as possible at the time. Yes, now, we are moving to create some of these facilities with I will be about long-term resilience and providing responsiveness into the future to whatever may be thrown at us into the future which none of us can necessarily predict in terms of this virus or other challenges to come.

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