Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I am advised by my ministerial colleague that the government will not be supporting your proposed amendment to develop and publish an environmental biosecurity strategy and action plan. It is difficult to isolate environmental biosecurity risks within the overall system, because the system operates to manage all biosecurity risks. Dealing with environmental biosecurity as a separate issue or function may actually act to the detriment of the system as a whole.