Federal Hunter MPs Sharon Claydon and Pat Conroy say Australia is "nowhere near" the vaccination levels needed to abandon COVID-19 restrictions.
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The comments follow Prime Minister Scott Morrison pushing ahead with plans to ease restrictions and end lockdowns, despite the high number of cases in NSW.
Mr Morrison said on Monday that the plan to "live with the virus" was based on "the best possible scientific, medical and economic advice, I would argue, available to any government in the world".
Once 70 per cent to 80 per cent of eligible people were vaccinated "the plan sets out that we have to move forward". "We cannot hold back," Mr Morrison said.
He said lockdowns would do "more harm than good" if they continued beyond these points.
"Our task between that day and now is to ensure that we ready ourselves for that next phase."
He said we must continue to vaccinate at "the record pace we are now doing".
"We must ensure that our public health systems are ready for the increase in the number of cases that will occur. We must be clear about the rules, the common sense rules that continue to apply post 70 per cent and post 80 per cent, which are factored into the work that is being done."
Ms Claydon, the Newcastle MP, said Mr Morrison "needs to explain to the Australian people when we will reach these vaccination targets, what his targets are for case numbers and how we'll vaccinate our children".
Mr Morrison said "there's no freedom day here".
"That's not what my plan is. I mean, a day is not going to change it. Seventy per cent's going to change it. Eighty per cent's going to change it," he said.
Mr Conroy, the Shortland MP, said Australia's full vaccination rate was only about 23 per cent due to "Scott Morrison's botched vaccine rollout".
"That is well behind where the Prime Minister promised we would be at this point in time, and we are nowhere near the levels needed to abandon restrictions. No one wants to be in lockdown any longer than needed, but Australians want certainty and leadership on this issue."
Ms Claydon said people in priority categories were still unvaccinated, despite Mr Morrison "promising they'd all be vaccinated by Easter".
Mr Conroy said the Prime Minister's comments on lockdown "seem to contradict the original plan and advice from the Doherty Institute to lift restrictions based on low numbers of COVID cases in our community, not the hundreds of daily cases we currently have".
"If that health advice has changed, Scott Morrison needs to be upfront and clear about that," he said.
"The Prime Minister is still yet to answer important questions regarding his latest plan, including when we will reach 80 per cent vaccinations, and what his target is for vaccinating teenagers."
Ms Claydon said the current outbreak had "occurred for two reasons".
"Scott Morrison failed to build purpose-built quarantine facilities and he failed to secure enough vaccines."
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