Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, Senator Pocock. I suspect that the groups who are speaking to you about this program are the very same groups who've spoken to me and indeed to the Minister for Finance as well, and the Treasurer, about the importance of this program. So, as I said, we are at that point in the budget cycle where all these things are being considered. It is the case that the Saving Native Species program was funded for four years after our election in 2022. That means that the funding for the current program expires on 30 June this year. And of course that, along with a range of other measures, will be considered by the government as we finalise this year's budget.