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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I appreciate the minister's answer but I ask the minister: does not he or the minister he represents understand that this is a matter of life and death? We do not want to wait for counts or other research. This is happening now. What I am asking the minister to do, as the Senate motion did yesterday, is to do something urgently about the Commonwealth classification of this species as vulnerable. It is clearly not vulnerable. Can the minister give an undertaking to do something now to save lives? (Time expired)