Australian Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has said that the country would not ban entry to travellers from Indonesia amid worries of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD).
Speaking to Sky News Australia, Watt said the federal government had not considered shutting the border.
“We have no plans to close the border, either to Indonesia or to any of the other many countries that have foot and mouth disease,” he said, in response to calls from several opposition MPs.
Watt criticised the opposition for “playing politics” with the agriculture industry and said the previous Morrison government would not have implemented such measures….