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No evidence yet of transmission of bird flu to Australian wildlife, says Watt

Murray Watt is asked about the big story in his portfolio – bird flu, of which cases have now been detected in WA and South Australia.

There’s no evidence at this point in time there’s been any transmission from those migratory birds to the broader Australian wildlife population. That’s obviously a good thing. That’s something we won’t want to see happen.

I wouldn’t want to predict exactly what will happen from here. It is possible that we’ll see more cases over the next few days or weeks. But what I can say to people is that we’re prepared and … we want people to avoid contact with sick or dead birds. We want them to record and report any sightings they come across, so we can ensure that testing is done.

We have seen a bit of a change in the public mood towards One Nation since Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech.

I think that speech was a bit of a reality check for a lot of Australians who were thinking about voting for One Nation, because they got to see that as much as people are under pressure at the moment, things could get worse under One Nation with all the cuts they were talking about imposing.
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