A NEW report has forecast an outbreak of Foot and Mouth or Lumpy Skin disease to impact almost 34,000 regional Queensland jobs if it reaches Australian shores.
The report, commissioned by Regional Development Australia (RDA) and undertaken by AEC, was looking into shires in Western and Central Qld. It found almost a third of Western Qld jobs and 20pc of jobs in the Banana Shire were dependent on the livestock industry and the disease could see a $1 billion hit to the regional Qld economy.
A presumption of a 100pc halt in livestock trading activity was assumed for the report, which looked…
