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

My question without notice is to Senator Campbell, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. Is the minister aware that after 26 months of operation only one of Australia’s 16 World Heritage sites has made it onto the government’s new National Heritage List? Can the minister confirm that none of Australia’s greatest environmental treasures—such as the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Kakadu National Park, Ningaloo Reef and the Blue Mountains—have made it onto the new National Heritage List? Can the minister explain why he is taking so long to properly recognise sites that are already acclaimed as World Heritage areas by putting them on the new National Heritage List?