Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, and it regards the impending death of 400 kangaroos at the Belconnen Naval Transmission Station and the comment by the minister for the environment that, ‘I don’t intend to take any other actions other than to just observe those processes as they unfold.’ I ask the minister why the minister for the environment has washed his hands of this issue. Will he urgently review the translocation option of removing the kangaroos to acceptable farmlands in New South Wales? Will the minister give a guarantee, moreover, that the grasslands in question are to be permanently reserved and their environmental values protected?