Wednesday, 15 October 2025

 Renee HEATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:46): (1874) My question is for the Minister for Environment. Residents of French Island are reporting starving and dying koalas, eucalypts without a single leaf and an unmanaged population of 12,000 – more than twice the sustainable level. Will the government rule out shooting and advise of the immediate, nonlethal actions to be deployed, including veterinary triage, transportation to shelters desperate for infection-free koalas, large-scale fertility control without timelines and the funding and agency-led response for delivery?