Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

The senator persists in reading a question that has been prewritten and continues, as occurred at estimates, I think wilfully, to mislead and assert quite wrongly a hypothetical situation. As I have said here on a number of occasions—and certainly the National Party could not understand the evidence and the detailed outline given at Senate estimates—there is no application for the importation of foot-and-mouth virus; there is none at all. What we have here is a typical relevance deprivation question from the National Party to try to make itself more relevant on issues it has ignored for so long. (Time expired)