Western Victoria Region
Bev McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (14:06): (1074) My question is for the Minister for Environment and concerns the dingo unprotection order 2023, which is due to expire next month. Minister, with just weeks remaining on the inadequate one-year extension you granted previously, it is incredible that you are leaving farmers and landowners in regional Victoria in limbo. The order is an essential part of Victoria’s wild dog and dingo control program, and it will expire in one month’s time. We are still waiting for the ‘substantial and informed consultation’ and further research, including population surveys, which you promised in last year’s order. But we can live without that now. What is desperately, urgently required from the minister is an extension to the unprotection order and for a duration which will not cause this level of angst for regional Victorians this time next year.