House debates

Thursday, 12 November 2020

Questions without Notice

Environment: Native Species

2:59 pm

Photo of Sussan LeySussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Macarthur for his question and thank him for his interest in threatened species, because it's an interest that the government shares and is committed to addressing. I know that members opposite raised the issue of recovery plans, and they're an important part of the conservation approach we take to threatened species generally, because 95 per cent of all listed species have conservation advices. But I also want to make the point that, while the Labor Party focuses on a document, a name, a plan—and those plans exist—we focus on a range of activities, including our safe havens, our work with feral invasive species, our $200 million expenditure post the bushfires—

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