Michael McCormack says mouse plague from regional Australia should be ‘rehomed into inner city’

Mouse plague should be diverted to cities to scratch the children of animal rights activists at night, acting prime minister says

Mice from regional Australia should be rehomed" to inner-city suburbs to nibble the feet of animal rights activists and scratch their children at night", the country's acting prime minister, Michael McCormack, has told parliament.

McCormack on Wednesday responded to an opposition Labor question about the federal government's lack of a national plan to combat the mouse plague in regional areas of eastern Australia.