Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The point is that other experts have very clearly said—and further research has been undertaken since the earlier work on translocation which has shown this—that the mortality rate in translocation has significantly decreased. As I understand it, it is down to a level of only five per cent mortality, which we believe is a much better option than actually culling the kangaroos. Culling kangaroos has to be the absolute last resort. We do not believe enough effort has been put into looking at the translocation option and we would certainly like to see at least a pilot program undertaken on it.

Other forms of control are apparently now being considered after preliminary work has been done around fertility control. We very strongly support non-lethal methods of control into the future. We very strongly suggest that consideration be given to at least a trial of translocation. That is much preferable to culling the kangaroos and it needs to be looked at as a matter of urgency. We urge very strongly that translocation be reconsidered because we are deeply concerned that decisions have been made on old science whereas there is now a lot of new science around translocation of kangaroos.

Question agreed to.