Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Wentworth for his question and appreciate his interest in the koala, an iconic umbrella species, as we came out of the Black Summer bushfires. Last week the Morrison government announced a new koala package. This was a further $18 million investment in koala conservation, on top of the $26 million we have invested since 2014 and in advance of the release of the draft koala recovery plan, which is going out for public consultation early next year. As well as research and health science, the package announced a key approach in safeguarding the koala, which is a national koala census.

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