Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Can the government confirm that effectively its only contingency plan to contain fire blight when it comes to Australia, not eradicate it, is for farmers to use the antibiotic, streptomycin, which health experts such as Professor Peter Collignon, ANU's professor of infectious diseases, have warned could have serious public health implications?