Ian Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, what we are trying to achieve with World Heritage listing or national heritage listing—and we are putting forward the Sydney Opera House this year for World Heritage listing; we are looking at Norfolk Island’s Kingston and Arthur’s Vale district for World Heritage listing next year—is protection and promotion. What Senator Carr is saying is, ‘Let’s take a property that is protected under World Heritage legislation and put it onto the National Heritage List.’ And he wonders why we have not done it. We have said we are going to do it. He then asks what is really a new question about Anzac Cove, and he knows very well that the Australian government—through my department, other relevant departments and at a prime minister-to-prime minister level—is talking to the Turkish government on an appropriate regime for the recognition and protection of those important sites at Anzac Cove. I suggest to Senator Carr that, rather than being lazy, he actually look back through the records, do a little bit of research, take the issue seriously and not try to politicise something like Anzac Cove.