Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

I utterly reject any imputation that Minister Burke does not take this matter seriously—I absolutely reject it. In June 2012, the Queensland member for Dalrymple, Mr Shane Knuth MP, introduced a private member's bill to empower landowners to cull or drive away flying foxes. The Queensland Minister for Environment and Heritage Protection, the Hon. Andrew Powell, has said the LNP has clearly outlined the flying fox management policy which aims to balance community safety and wildlife protection and would therefore not be supportive of—