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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Senator Wong. Now that the Coorong has reached crisis point and is critically threatened, as evidenced in the report on the health of the Coorong leaked last week, can the minister advise if, and if so when, the government plans to nominate the Coorong and the lower lakes Ramsar site under the convention’s Montreux Record of sites as undergoing change in ecological character prior to the Ramsar conference of the parties in October this year? Also, will the government list the area under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as a critically endangered ecological community, and if not, why not?