Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell, and relates to the north-east peninsula of Recherche Bay. As the minister knows, it was listed on the National Heritage List in 2005 but was due to be logged this year until the financial arrangement brokered by my colleague Senator Brown resulted in the area being saved and placed in permanent protection. Notwithstanding the hostility of his colleague the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Abetz, and the $2.5 million that Senator Abetz allocated to Gunns last week, will the Minister for the Environment and Heritage inform the Senate how the federal government intends to assist financially and in any other ways in the preservation of this fantastic national heritage site?