Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

Utopia. It's classic Utopia. The official government vets, who this entire biosecurity arrangement was based on, actually don't exist in the US or the UK yet. We've got potentially thousands of expats in the US and in the UK who want to return home with their pets but are unable to because the actual system the Labor Party set up doesn't exist. They can't have their pets identified in the UK or the US. Hats off to everybody over there.

Thankfully, they've given an exemption for Maximus and Henry to come home. I'm calling on the Labor Party not to make that a once-off but to ensure that all cats, dogs, llamas, mice, gerbils, whatever—family pets, one and all—can, within a strong biosecurity system, come home with appropriate systems in place to protect our strong borders on biosecurity, but also to ensure that pets are reunited and stay with the families that love them. Thank you Andrew and Shona. It's been our pleasure.