Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I'm going to ask you a question—and perhaps you and I can both look back on the answers when we leave this place. Can I ask you one of the great moral and political questions of our time: how many industry jobs are worth the avoidable extinction of a critically endangered species? Specifically, how many salmon industry jobs on the West Coast of Tasmania are worth the extinction of the ancient maugean skate?