Senate debates

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Questions without Notice

Biosecurity

2:36 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I can talk about the risks. The risks to our biosecurity system are complacency—complacency from industry, complacency from importers, and complacency from travellers and people who think it is okay to bring that home-cooked sausage back for their son and daughter who may be studying at one of our great institutions. They think they won't be able to purchase high-quality food in Australia, so they pack their suitcases full of cooked pork products, quail eggs and maybe some squid, and away they go.

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