2016-11-21
Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) — My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Lily D'Ambrosio, MP, regarding the protection of hooded plovers in response to significant community concern for the protected hooded plover habitat being trampled by racehorses training along beaches between Port Fairy and Warrnambool. The government has announced a plan to regulate the use of these beaches for commercial horse training. Why has the government responded to the damage caused by commercial horse training by increasing the number of horses and expanding their training area over more beaches, which both ignores the issues raised by the community and environment groups and exacerbates the cause of their concerns?
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Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) — I cannot wait! My supplementary question is: exactly how does the government intend to monitor and enforce licensing conditions given no-one will be on the beaches actually counting these horses?
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