Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer the minister to statements last week by the owner of Cairns Marine, Mr Lyall Squire, who said:

We have grave fears for our survival, worse, this is not about science …

Can the minister explain what specific threat this successful business, which exports species such as clownfish, sharks and rays, presents to the Coral Sea? Why will its access to Osprey and Shark reefs be soon taken away? Is this all about Green preferences and pandering to the American Pew foundation, who demanded to lock up the Coral Sea?