Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

In 1999, when Australia lost its case in the WTO on the importation of salmon products, guess who said that the government would not indemni­fy the industry against an incursion? It was Mr John Howard. We have pest and disease incursion arrangements in place to address incursions. That is what we have done. These arrangements place obligations on govern­ment, state and federal—and in certain circumstances on industry themselves—to manage the post-border, the border and the pre-border arrangements. That is what we have in place.