Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

Are you supporting them or aren’t you, Senator Sterle? They should be tough. I fully agree with you, Senator Sterle. That same industry body that your frontbencher seeks to quote has been critical. If Senator O’Brien were honest with the Senate, if my memory serves me correctly I think that letter related to foot-and-mouth disease and was not in relation to the particularities of equine influenza. I stand to be corrected in the supplementary question in relation to that, but I do not think I will be. So is it a serious issue? Of course it is. We have put—