Framing the Gene Technology Bill 2000
Richard Hindmarsh · 2008
In a highly embarrassing situation for the government, regulatory breaches occurred again in March 1992, immediately after the tabling in parliament of the federal GE inquiry report. It seemed that some biointerests continued to treat regulation with disdain. After all, regulation was basically still business as usual; the bioelite continued to firmly control the regulatory function and dissenters had once again been firmly put in their place, or so it appeared. On the ABC 7.30 Report, GMAC head Nancy Millis hedged about the new breaches. Professor Howell of Murdoch University was more definitive. Engineered soil organisms imported from the USA had been released in Australia without approval. The Australian Conservation Foundation immediately demanded that urgent national and uniform genetic engineering laws be implemented. Another eight years would pass before that eventuality.