Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

The government has called on the international community to acknowledge the risk associated with wildlife wet markets and to take action to protect human health and agricultural industries. Australia's Chief Veterinary Officer, as President of the World Organisation for Animal Health, is seeking to deliver global reforms to wildlife wet markets to minimise the associated risks, or to phase them out where practical. This approach will reduce the risk of future pandemics and their subsequent far-reaching impacts while sustaining desirable global food security outcomes. Australia has some of the strictest wildlife trade rules in the world and is a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, resulting in over 1,000 species being prohibited from trade for commercial purposes.

Question negatived.