Sydney Koala Park welcome but does nothing to distract from Great Koala National Park damage and delay
The Minns Labor Government have been accused of searching for a distraction from their ongoing failure to announce the Great Koala National Park as the Environment Minister Penny Sharpe announced the creation of just a fraction of the Warranmadhaa National Park in Western Sydney.
Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson says,
“We always welcome the fulfilment of commitments to create new National Parks, but it is very hard to get excited about this one. It has taken so long, it’s only half of the promised Park and importantly none of the land moving into the Park is at threat of being harmed or degraded”,
“Whereas the single biggest environmental commitment the Minns Government made to protect koalas which would make a material difference to the survival of koalas in the wild and the National Park Estate, is the Great Koala National Park and right now they’re still ripping it to pieces through industrial logging with no transparency or announcement in sight”,
“Labor have lost credibility on the environment and koalas. This announcement appears more like a Labor Premier scrambling to find an environmental announcement to distract from his catastrophic failure to protect the Great Koala National Park from logging”,
The last shreds of the Premier’s credibility on environmental issues are rapidly disintegrating, and Chris Minns must immediately announce the full 176,000 hectares of promised Great Koala National Park if he wants any of that credibility back.”