Nationals Leader David Littleproud says Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has been “masking” the fact that he has been “rife with indecision” in dealing with the foot and mouth disease crisis.
He said the only new measure he has put out is the one million vaccines he has given to Indonesia, which he did a month ago.
“The fact he took four weeks to even make the determination to close away the vulnerability of foot and mouth disease coming in through the bottom of someone’s boot because a detector dog can’t pick it up,” he told Sky News Australia.
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