Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Because of the federal government's classification of the spectacled flying fox as vulnerable, residents trying to protect their families and homes from these flying foxes are threatened with fines of up to $100,000 and jail terms for doing just that. In view of the threatening nature of the infestation of urban areas by flying foxes in places like Yungaburra, Cairns, Charters Towers and Inverell, what is the government doing to enable flying foxes to be moved on to non-urban routes as a matter of urgency? This is a matter of life and death, Minister.