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Different circumstances': Marles shrugs off comparison to UK turmoil

Richard Marles says that there are different circumstances between Australia and the UK, as both countries see a surge in popularity of rightwing populist parties (Nigel Farage's Reform UK and Pauline Hanson's One Nation).

I think there are different circumstances here ... Having lived through [leadership changes] in the earlier part of my career, the way politics plays out is very specific to particular parts of the world. And what we're seeing happen with what's playing out in Britain is obviously a matter for them.

I think one of the things that we see with events playing out overnight is how difficult public life is and all of us feel, I think for Keir Starmer, in that sense, it is.

We're still in the investigation stage and [I] reiterate that it's not in poultry or agriculture systems at this point in time.

What we have learned from overseas is that we cannot prevent it from spreading and we've been very clear about that. We cannot stop it from arriving. It would come via migratory wildlife.