Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Clearly, Senator Marshall has not read the report. He certainly was not on the committee and does not have a clue as to what is in the report. The matters I am talking about are actually germane to the report. I think they constitute a recommendation of the committee—that is, that state governments create these national parks to get Greens preferences and have an aura of environmental concern as they run into the 12 months before the state election. Then, once the national parks are set up, they do not spend a cent on them. The management of national parks—and this committee report is very clearly critical of the management by state governments—