Tuesday, 9 December 2025

 Georgie PURCELL (Northern Victoria) (12:41): (2072) My constituency question is for the Minister for Environment. Yarra Ranges council has again written to the government to express concern and disappointment that their region still falls within the brutal commercial kangaroo harvesting program. This latest correspondence comes after councillors already voted in support of a motion that called for their area to be excluded from this state-sanctioned cruelty. Yarra Ranges remains the only metropolitan council to be included within the harvest zone. Following similar community backlash, the government excluded the Mornington Peninsula in 2021. Kangaroos roamed this area long before any council boundary was drawn, and they deserve to be protected, not peppered with bullets. In its letter to the government, the council outlined how its ratepayers felt unheard and disillusioned with this state government. Will the minister finally listen to the concerns of Yarra Ranges ratepayers and remove their LGA from this wildlife-killing program?