Family farmer anxious about the risk of foot and mouth disease

By Stephen Burns
July 21 2022 - 8:00pm
Paul Northey, Innisfail, Weethalle, supporting his daughter Emma with her flock ewes at the Hay Sheep Show.
Paul Northey, Innisfail, Weethalle, supporting his daughter Emma with her flock ewes at the Hay Sheep Show.

For many thousands of years, the continental isolation of our island had quarantined the indigenous flora and fauna from any of the worst effects of invasion by foreign species detrimental to their insular existence.

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