Warrandyte electorate
Mr R SMITH (Warrandyte) (12:55): (2047) My constituency question is to the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, and I ask it today on behalf of Andersons Creek Landcare. Andersons Creek Landcare are extremely concerned about this government’s inability to release the final Victorian deer management strategy—a strategy which was due over a year ago—and are further concerned by the serious flaws in the draft strategy which raise serious environmental concerns. There have been some very sensible and considered suggestions made by Andersons Creek Landcare by way of the strategy submission process, and I urge the minister to look at these and incorporate these commonsense points in the final iteration. With the departmental website saying simply that the final strategy will be released in 2020, I ask: in what month of 2020 will we see the response to the urgent and growing problem of deer numbers being released?