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

Deputy Prime Minister, the Courier Mail front page said David Attenborough labelled the Great Barrier Reef as 'magnificent'—not 'endangered', but 'magnificent'. Are you aware that China holds the chairmanship of UNESCO, currently meeting in China? Isn't the proposed declaration by UNESCO of the barrier reef as endangered a serious erosion of Australia's sovereignty and yet another intrusion into the control room of our country?

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