Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Everyone in this place and, I would suggest, in all parliaments—state and territory—would be deeply concerned about the preparation for bushfires and about the dangers that bushfires pose to many Australians. I would respectfully suggest to the Senate that that probably is a question more properly addressed to the New South Wales government. I would have thought that the management of national parks within New South Wales would have been a matter for the New South Wales government. I am happy to see if I can obtain further information, Senator, but I do not have any information on the specifics of burn-off or other aspects of the management of New South Wales national parks. I can say that, in relation to the matter I was raising, which was— (Time expired)