Thursday, 31 October 2019

 Ms BRITNELL (South-West Coast) (11:44): (1381) My constituency question is to the Minister for Agriculture in the other place, and the action I seek is the latest information on the specific actions being taken to deal with feral pigs at the recently UNESCO world heritage-listed Budj Bim Indigenous landscape in my electorate. Media reports last week suggest that feral pigs have been noticed in the Heywood region since 2015 but numbers are growing significantly and there is serious potential for extensive and irreversible damage to the Budj Bim cultural area and to farmland in the area. In a joint statement to the media last week the responsible departments and agencies said they were working with the community but failed to say what they were doing. This is an issue that needs a robust and immediate approach, and I seek that information about what is specifically being done to deal with this problem.