Scott Morrison refuses to apologise over botched vaccine rollout, regrets 'not a race' comment Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under pressure to apologise for the slow arrival of COVID-19 jabs - with half the population suffering through lockdown for at least another week - as he tells radio show the "not a race" comment was taken out of context. David WuDigital Reporter July 22, 2021 - 7:20AM Scott Morrison stopped short of apologising for the vaccine rollout yesterday during three radio interviews and tried to retract his "not a race" comment from earlier this year. “When that was said by both [health department secretary] Professor Murphy and I at the time, what we were talking about was the regulation of vaccines and to ensuring that the vaccines that were being used in Australia had gone through their proper approvals authorities,” Mr Morrison told 5AA.