Wednesday, 27 November 2024

Werribee Open Range Zoo

Mathew HILAKARI (Point Cook) (19:08): (954) The biggest residents of Victoria are packing their trunks. What am I talking about? My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Environment and Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major Events, and the action that I seek from the minister is to join me on a visit to Werribee zoo and the elephant expansion that is going on there. Werribee zoo is a major tourist attraction within the community that I represent. The new elephant barns are bigger than Bunnings. The minister at the table, Minister Brooks, would attest to that. Their enclosure is almost as big as the entirety of the current Melbourne Zoo – appropriate, of course.

Within the expansive elephant habitat the herd will benefit from seven different yards connected by elephant overpasses – do not stand under them for too long! – two megapools and a visitor walking trail. These amazing barns that the elephants will call home are filled with sand, the perfect resting place for them to get some great shut-eye. I look forward to seeing the elephants at Werribee zoo, and having the minister there as well would be something to trumpet about.