Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

As I pointed out, this was the subject of some hours of questioning at Senate estimates. What became apparent at the Senate estimates hearings on this issue is that there is no—I repeat, no—current application to import foot-and-mouth virus. And despite the attempts of a range of senators at Senate estimates to unfairly inject fear into the general community on this issue, it became very apparent that that was really all that the approach of the National and Liberal parties’ senators was—that is, to inject fear, quite unreasonably. As I have said, there is no current application to import foot-and-mouth virus. That is the situation as of today; that was the situation at estimates a fortnight ago. (Time expired)