Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator Wong. Last Thursday, on National Threatened Species Day, the minister for the environment issued a media release stating:

The Albanese Labor Government has today released a new Recovery Plan to boost the long-term survival of the critically endangered Swift Parrot.

However, as reported by the Guardian, the swift parrot recovery plan announced on Threatened Species Day was not actually finalised and had not been shared with the experts who helped to develop it. The last official draft they had received was a version released for public comment in 2019, and, once they had seen it, the scientists said the plan released on Thursday contained no meaningful action to address the key threat to the survival of the species—the logging of native forests. Minister, how much longer is the federal government going to allow the native forest logging industry to recklessly destroy swift parrot habitat and drive them to extinction?