Janelle Saffin (Page, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Cowper said in tabling a petition in the House last week on the issue of bats at Maclean High School that bureaucratic inaction had been made worse by my refusal to support removal of the bats. The member for Cowper needs to tell the truth about this situation. I have been working closely with this school community since mid February to help new principal Mr Tony Carr, the parents and citizens association and the New South Wales Department of Education and Training lodge a fresh application for approval to disperse flying foxes. I had previously advised how to achieve this, as with the expiration of the licence there had been no action taken.

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