The NFF’s 20 December 2012 submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Inquiry on the Biosecurity Bills welcomes the modernisation of the century-old Quarantine Act 1908, but also notes issues which are yet to be resolved.
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