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

Senator Carr says ‘one in 1,000 years’; I refer him to the Sunday newspapers in Tasmania that show strikes at the Woolnorth wind farm on the very endangered wedge-tailed eagle in northern Tasmania—originally predicted at one per year—are occurring at the rate of one per month. This is a species that is less threatened than the orange-bellied parrot. There are 130 breeding pairs versus 50. So my department, to conclude—I am sure a supplementary question will come up—did give us advice on cumulative impacts. The advice on cumulative impacts said quite clearly that the orange-bellied parrot is in such low numbers and at such risk of extinction that any further threats to it could hasten its extinction. That is the advice I relied on, and it is sound and thorough advice.