Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for his assurances that the government remains on the front line. Can the minister please tell the Senate why the government has decided not to renew the federal funding for the ANU’s Master of Applied Epidemiology program, which is, in the absence of a national centre for disease control, Australia’s only front line flying squad of doctors, vets and nurses to protect the Australian people and animal populations from epidemics of communicable, infectious disease?