Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Housing and Urban Development) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I ask the minister: why has it taken 26 months to fix this problem? Is the minister aware that the Prime Minister promised on 18 December 2003 that Anzac Cove would be the first place to go onto the National Heritage List? Can the minister now confirm that, two years after the Prime Minister made that commitment, Anzac Cove still has not been put onto the list? Does this mean that the complacency which marked the government’s approach to Anzac Cove roadworks is now the hallmark of its approach to heritage protection more generally?