Beekeepers to submit new funding request

The group that represents Australia's bee keepers is preparing a fresh case for more federal funds since its latest bid for more money was rejected.The Australian Honey Bee Industry Council has been lobbying hard for funding for baited hives installed near all ports to trap any bees arriving on ships and planes as well as a range of other measures.Council chairman, Lindsay Bourke says his latest meeting with the Federal Agriculture Minister Tony Burke in Canberra only secured $300,000 of the $50 million his Council was asking for."I'm a little bit disappointed that we found out that we're not going to get the $50 million. He made it quite clear there isn't money for that, but he would take on board the things that had most priority and one of them was the sentinel and bait hive program which is quarantine for out ports that is most important."
In this report: Lindsay Bourke, chairman of the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council