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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 102 asked in the Legislative Council on 20 February 2019 by Hon Diane Evers

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT

102. Hon DIANE EVERS to the Minister for Environment:

(1) When was the last state of the environment report for Western Australia completed?

(2) Has the government prepared and implemented a response to the recommendations in the most recent report? If yes, when was that response published; and, if not, why not?

(3) Is the minister aware that every other Australian state carries out regular state of the environment reporting on a three to five-year cycle?

(4) When will the next state of the environment report for Western Australia be released?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question.

(1) In 2007.

(2) There are no records of a government-prepared response to the 2007 report.

(3)–(4) I am aware that other jurisdictions undertake varying levels of state of the environment reporting. Since 2013, the Environmental Protection Authority has reported annually, and provides a yearly examination of the environment of Western Australia, which allows a timely and contemporary approach to environment trends and issues. The Environmental Protection Authority report for 2017–18 was published in October 2018.