Australia is ill-prepared for any sort of natural disaster, such as the predicted bird flu epidemic, warns former senior Commonwealth public servant, Colin Teese. Worst of all, the Federal Government is misguidedly dismantling Australia’s strict quarantine standards in the name of ever more trade liberalisation.If the recent tragedy in New Orleans tells us anything, it is that governments can’t leave risk management – as it relates to public policy – to chance. When only the government can prote…
