Senate debates

Thursday, 28 July 2022

Questions without Notice

Biosecurity: Foot-And-Mouth Disease

2:01 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Well, that's a pretty sad way for this question time to start out today, given that I think on three or four occasions yesterday I actually answered the question that you are asking. I have received a letter from you, which I have signed a response to. You may have even received it by now.

Well, maybe talk to your office, but we certainly have signed off a response. I will confirm yet again—I'm probably up to five times, six times, seven times—that 100 per cent of passengers who have returned to Australia from Indonesia since the foot mats were in place on Monday and Tuesday—

Honourable senators interjecting—

That's what I said. That's what I said.

Honourable senators interjecting—

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