Bill Heffernan (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It has an estimated 800,000 feral pigs. It has about 30,000 untagged feral cattle. It has about 14,000 people who live off the coast—12,000 of them Indigenous. It has about 17 pastoral stations. The rest of it is either sit-down blackfella country or national park. And they want to turn it all into a World Heritage area. They want to lock up the first kilometre from all the rivers there, which are as good as the Murrumbidgee Flats. Sure we need new agricultural technologies. Sure we need GM production. See that against the background, Senator McLucas—you say I do not know what I am talking about—of a place like Bangladesh.