Lowan electorate
Emma KEALY (Lowan) (14:37): (1232) My constituency question is to the Minister for Environment, and the information I seek is: when will authority-to-control-wildlife permits be issued to landholders in the north-west of the state to assist in the management of wild dogs or dingoes mauling live sheep and lambs on private land? Over the past few weeks I have been sent horrific images of so many lambs being mauled by dingoes in the north-west. These are little nips of flesh that are taken from ribs and from the stomach, and you can see live lambs walking with entrails dragging across the ground. The landholders are absolutely in despair about how their stock are being treated by these dingoes. They have exhausted all nonlethal means to control these dingoes or wild dogs. They are now asking when they will be able to access ATCWs so that they can appropriately manage the wild dogs or dingoes, protect their stock and stop this cruel slaughter of the lambs.