Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

As part of Australia's strongest response to a biosecurity threat, our three-pronged approach will continue to serve us well as we fight to keep foot-and-mouth disease out of our country, but we must remain vigilant to this threat and continue to improve our responses going forward. This work will now lead into and inform Exercise Paratus, a live boots-on-the-ground foot-and-mouth disease based scenario to be undertaken with states and territories next year.

We are also continuing our support for Indonesia to assist them to control their outbreak. As of last week, I'm pleased to report, 250,000 doses of lumpy skin disease vaccine supplied by Australia had been administered to Indonesian livestock, while Australia's supply of one million foot-and-mouth disease vaccines have been distributed, with 600,000 having been delivered to the island of Bali alone. A further three million vaccines will arrive in the coming weeks, and we've also trained more than 300 local officials with specific focus on technical aspects of vaccine delivery, biosecurity management and record-keeping.