EI Inquiry Hearings End & Report Due By April 25

Retired High Court judge Ian Callinan, head of the inquiry into Australia's equine influenza outbreak, has retired to consider his findings & is due to provide his report by April 25. Counsel assisting the inquiry Tony Meagher summed up that the likely source of the virus was a shipment of horses which arrived from Japan on August 8. (Apr 4)