Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Boswell for his supplementary question. The marine bioregional plans and marine reserve zoning schemes for areas outside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park do not apply in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, so they are two distinct issues. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is managed under its own legislation. The zoning plan for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is subject to consideration by parliament, as are management plans for other marine reserves. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has already indicated publicly that the outlook report has shown the current zoning plan is working. So, where you ask for a total and unequivocal guarantee that trawling in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park be allowed to continue under the World Heritage multi-use agreement, I bring you back to the issue that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park— (Time expired)