Vets call for biosecurity change

The Australian Veterinary Association says more qualified people need to be put in charge of national biosecurity.
The AVA has made a wide-ranging submission to the federal inquiry into equine influenza.
AVA president, Dr Diane Sheehan, believes animal health professionals have struggled to have their concerns heard by senior bureaucrats, who don't have the same qualifications.
"You need people with the appropriate qualifications, and that includes veterinary qualifications, PhDs, and that the quality of the person that should be feeding that information throughout the department", she says.
"Those people have the contacts, and can monitor what's happening overseas and can put it into a better package, and I think that the department overall will be the winners."