The threat of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak is dominating the headlines, but it's not the only risk the nation faces — and some of the others are already here.
"We are unable to successfully freeze our genetics," she said.
"Australia trading on our clean, disease-free image is a critical part of what helps us maintain some of these export markets that are so profitable for livestock industries," he said."If our livestock industries get locked dowN and can't supply their suppliers, that's ultimately going to affect everybody in the cities as well," he said."We saw that in the pandemic, when abattoirs were unable to process animals, then you had shortages of meat in our supermarkets.
The Community and Public Sector Union said an increasing workload at airports and ports was taking its toll.
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