Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Duck hunting

Jeff BOURMAN (Eastern Victoria) (17:43): (162) My matter today is for the Minister for Outdoor Recreation. Minister, I was shown a screenshot of the Game Management Authority website that had some data regarding overall behaviour in the first five days of duck-hunting season. This data has been made public every previous year. Imagine my surprise when I went to look at the GMA website, and it was not there. Well, the page had been modified, but nothing had actually changed. Well, there was an asterisk for ‘protestor related’ but no data there to relate to. If I were the suspicious type, I would think that the data was published and showed something the minister did not like and the GMA was forced to remove it. The action I seek is for the minister to republish the unedited data on the GMA website to bring it into line with every other year.