Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

In this budget we are investing more than $1 billion in new funding for biosecurity over four years from 1 July 2023. We know how important that is for our farmers. We also know that biosecurity is a shared responsibility. That $1 billion of new funding over four years will help with our biosecurity operations, our digital systems and Indigenous rangers. From 1 July that system is shared: it is shared by taxpayers, who are putting in the bulk of funding; it's shared by importers, who, in fact, are putting in 48 per cent of the $1 billion of funding; and—

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