Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Documents sent on 5 March to the government compliance unit in the Federal Police raised questions of most serious irregularities in the use of $20 million for crown-of-thorns starfish eradication. Some three weeks later, 9 April, it was decided that all reef action funding to the bodies in question, GBRMPA, the RRF and AMPTO, was to be terminated. Is the minister aware that one of these paid for a parliamentarian's political advertisement? Further, since starfish are removed for free and for fun, will we be assured a serious public investigation will be undertaken? I emphasise 'public'.

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