Friday, 25 October 2013 01:05

Attention!

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YOUR OLD mate wonders if the recent appointment of a former army major-general as director-general of MPI means the Government is finally getting serious about beefing up biosecurity?

With 27 years in the military, including commanding our forces in East Timor, Martyn Dunne certainly has plenty of security experience in his bio. The question is whether he and his troops at MPI will have the spine to stand up to trade lobbies that object to our standards, or indeed our own Government when it wants to shave another few minutes off the time it takes for tourists to pass through our borders.

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