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

The shark cull in Western Australia ran, as we know, over the summer and there is now a PER document out for public consultation, as Senator Fifield just articulated. The important part of this motion is that over 300—in fact now 305—scientists have written to the state and the federal governments to outline a letter of concern and to highlight very particularly the lack of scientific evidence around the Western Australian government's proposed shark cull or the continuation of the shark cull for three years. Three hundred and five international and Australian scientists are expressing very strongly their concern about this cull. This is about the federal government taking that information into account and rejecting what is a cruel practice that will decimate the shark species. (Time expired)

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