Heffernan to haunt estimates white spot disease interrogation

Colin Bettles
February 27 2017 - 12:01am
Now retired NSW Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan raised the alarm about white spot disease on imported marinated prawns in 2009 but nobody listened.
Now retired NSW Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan raised the alarm about white spot disease on imported marinated prawns in 2009 but nobody listened.

RETIRED NSW Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan’s feisty spirit will haunt Senate estimates hearings in Canberra this week when the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources is grilled about an outbreak of white spot disease that’s cruelling the local prawn industry.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

Canberra Bureau Chief

Has been the Canberra Bureau Chief for Fairfax Agricultural Media since 2010 - survived the hung parliament - former media manager at Western Australian Cricket Association now covering national agricultural and rural issues in federal politics.

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