Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much for the question. As you know, this government has been in office for 100 days and has actually implemented a program to prevent foot-and-mouth disease coming into this country. As you know, as I've said to previous questions before, in order to make sure we are able to deliver vaccines to Indonesia to assist them to get on top of this—and it is in our country's interest to ensure that that actually occurs—we need to make sure that we can ensure that we've got the right viral load, we know what we're doing in relation to that and we can deliver it.

In terms of the actual number, I will come back to the Leader of the Nationals , but I remind him that on 11 May, he knew that foot-and-mouth disease would be an issue in this country and did—

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