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

It is very embarrassing for Labor because the Latham-Beazley policy is to tear up the 34 per cent of green zones. Senator McLucas knows very well that I have said in estimates committees and on Townsville radio—on Townsville ABC—that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has served Australia and the reef well for 30 years. And it will continue to serve Australia well for the next 30 years. If Senator McLucas wants to go and scare the people at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, she can continue to do that, but the government’s intention is to ensure that we have a well-funded Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, based in Townsville, continuing to do the brilliant work it is doing at protecting Australia’s No. 1 environmental icon. Senator McLucas should be absolutely ashamed of herself for this outrageous scare campaign that she seeks to run.