Murray Plains electorate
Peter WALSH (Murray Plains) (14:37): (1301) My question is to the Minister for Environment, and it is on behalf of constituents who farm around the Koorangie marshes, north-west of Kerang. These farmers have been spending significant amounts of money baiting and destroying warrens to control rabbits on their side of the fence between themselves and Parks Victoria but keep getting reinfested by rabbits migrating out of state-controlled land, undoing all the good and very expensive work they have done. It is just as bad with foxes. These same farmers are also spending heaps of cash baiting to control foxes but are constantly being reinfested the same way, from the feral animal nursery next door on Parks Vic land. I ask the minister: when will Parks Vic carry out their next rabbit and fox control program in Koorangie marshes and stop the spread of rabbits and foxes onto neighbouring farmland?