Christopher Back (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thought that that would have set off alarm bells in the minister to hear such incorrect information. Can the minister advise the Senate which agency will continue field research in relation to diseases transmitted from birds and mosquitoes known to occur in Australia when the CRC is terminated, including the West Nile virus which killed 44 people in America as well as a number of animals in 2008 alone?