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Biosecurity Checks Get a $371M Beefing Up
Biosecurity controls will be beefed up in a bid to protect Australian agriculture from devastating diseases and pests.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Tuesday travel to Beef 2021 in Rockhampton to make a $371 million funding announcement one week ahead of the federal budget.
“Australia’s biosecurity system protects $42 billion in inbound tourism, $53 billion in agricultural exports and 1.6 million Australian jobs across the supply chain,” Morrison said.
“This investment is about building a protective ring around Australia to safeguard our industry as well as the rural and regional communities that depend on it. There will never be zero risk but we are committed to reducing the risk where possible.”
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As the long pandemic year drew to an end, and people started stringing up lights and decorating Christmas trees, Australians could be forgiven a small glimmer of hope that the worst of COVID-19 was behind us.
By mid-December, the country had secured more vaccine doses per person than any nation other than Canada. Early data from clinical trials suggested we’d nailed our four vaccine picks.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison receives his second Pfizer vaccination at Castle Hill Medical Centre in March.
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“There are no guarantees that these vaccines will prove successful, however our strategy puts Australia at the front of the queue.”
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