As mentioned earlier this morning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pushed back on calls to consider shutting the border with Indonesia over the country’s foot and mouth outbreak.
Farming and business groups have backed keeping the border open. But that doesn’t mean Nationals leader David Littleproud is happy with the federal government’s actions.
Nationals leader David Littleproud.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Here’s what he told the Today show:
The government’s been doing too little too late on all this.
Three weeks ago we said that they should look to bring in those foot mats. They still haven’t got the foot mats in [until today or tomorrow]. We have said that they should stop people coming back from Indonesia with food product. That would make it a lot easier on our biosecurity officers. They haven’t thought about that. And we have asked for the science. What is that – what is that threshold question that needs to be answered about what point [do you have to close the border]?
And here’s Littleproud’s response when pressed on whether he supports a border closure given farmers, at this stage, don’t want one:
Well, I’m not against it until I see the science.
What is that threshold? Have we crossed that precipice? I don’t know whether we have.
I think it’s important for this government to be honest with not only us and the Australian people, but Indonesia. If we do have to pull that trigger, we need to say to the Indonesians, this is the point.
That is what a good neighbour and good governments should do. Sadly, they [Labor] don’t understand agriculture. We will all pay. They need to get on with the job and get it sorted.
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