David Littleproud (Maranoa, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the admission by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in the Senate that almost four weeks following the Bali foot-and-mouth outbreak none of the promised one million vaccination doses have been delivered to Indonesia, nor have additional veterinarians arrived. How many of the promised one million doses have now been delivered and how many veterinarians have arrived in Indonesia?

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

As the shadow minister knows, in order to deliver a vaccine you actually have to make sure that you've got the right virus in the first place. They take a while to manufacture, for a start. They will be delivered, as we promised, in August. If you want to talk about delays, when did we hear about a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Australia? When did we hear about it? We heard about it on Twitter from the then minister for agriculture on 9 May.

David Littleproud (Maranoa, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The minister will resume her seat. She has been going for only 30 seconds. The Leader of the National Party, are you rising on a point of order?

David Littleproud (Maranoa, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, under standing order 68, on Thursday, after question time, I gave a personal explanation about an answer the Prime Minister gave that quoted the tweet which the minister has just raised, but did not read all of the tweet.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Resume your seat. There is no point of order. That is a separate matter. If you wish to take another personal explanation you can, but this is not the time to do it.

An opposition member: Yes, it is.

It's not during question time. I give the call to the minister, and I ask her to be relevant to the question regarding the delay in vaccine rollout and the four weeks after the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak has occurred. I call the minister.

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

Thank you very much. So when did we first hear about this outbreak? On Twitter, where the then minister for agriculture decided to announce that to Australian people via a tweet on 9 May. And what did he do? He offered a briefing to the opposition, as per our caretaker arrangements. But then what did you do? Absolutely nothing! Nothing! You did nothing!

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Has the minister concluded her answer? Yes, she has.

The minister has concluded her answer. The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat.