Calls for Australia to consider halting travel to Bali to prevent foot and mouth disease entering Australia are being met with resistance from livestock representatives concerned about how such a move would impact Australia’s critical relationship with Indonesia.
A number of livestock industry leaders have told Beef Central today that a tourism ban would undermine Australia’s cooperative efforts to control FMD in Indonesia.
Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has become the latest person to raise the suggestion that suspending flights from Bali should be…