Ross Lightfoot (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Special Minister of State for undertaking to take that question on notice. I ask that the Special Minister of State also take my supplementary question on notice if that is the case. One of the department’s reasons for this dire travel warning is that there is inter alia a severe threat of avian influenza. Why is this considered a grave threat for travellers when the last recorded fatality was in 2006, a point stressed by the British Commonwealth office?