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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 1018 asked in the Legislative Council on 18 September 2019 by Hon Rick Mazza

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

KANGAROO MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

1018. Hon RICK MAZZA to the Minister for Environment:

I refer to the Kangaroo Management Advisory Committee, which is convened by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

(1) How often has the committee met over the last five years?

(2) Which stakeholder groups were represented at the meetings?

(3) When does the current five-year management plan expire?

(4) What percentage of quotas have been achieved for each of the last five years?

(5) What have been the results of annual abundance surveys for each of the past five years?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

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

(1) The committee meets annually, and has met five times over the past five years.

(2) The committee membership includes representatives from Western Australian commercial kangaroo shooters, commercial kangaroo meat processors, WA Farmers Federation, Pastoralists and Graziers Association, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

(3) The ''Management Plan for the Commercial Harvest of Kangaroos in Western Australia 2019–2023'' expires on 31 December 2023.

(4) In 2018, 7.6 per cent of the state quota was harvested. In 2017, 9.6 per cent of the state quota was harvested. In 2016, 16.9 per cent of the state quota was harvested. In 2015, 27.8 per cent of the state quota was harvested. In 2014, 47.9 per cent of the state quota was harvested.

(5) The information for population estimates for red and western grey kangaroos from 2014 to 2018 is in tabular form; it lists the species and the year. I table it and seek leave to it incorporated into Hansard.

Leave granted. [See paper 3057.]

The following material was incorporated —

 

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Red kangaroo

409,422

827,000

1,132,000

1,464,330

1,825,760

Western grey kangaroo

1,246,870

1,565,800

1,357,700

2,270,445

2,423,800