Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the State of the environment report released today shows that 22 of Australia’s 64 internationally recognised RAMSAR wetlands are in serious decline and that this threatens the 80 waterbird species in wetlands in southern Australia? Given the extraordinary effort of your government, Prime Minister, to save one theoretical orange-bellied parrot, what is the government’s plan to save the many real waterbird species threatened by a serious decline of our wetlands?

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