John Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Considering Minister Burke’s opinion and attitude about not ruling out the importation of live foot-and-mouth disease virus to Australia, what guarantees can he give that the foot-and-mouth disease virus will not escape and decimate Australia’s sheep and cattle industries, along with the pork and goat industries, just as the calicivirus escaped from a laboratory in South Australia while being researched?