shooters in national parks of nsw australia.

[Monty]

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[Monty]

The Environment and Heritage department has been handed a $1.4 billion budget for the forthcoming financial year, with $419 million to be spent on the management of national parks and to help protect native fauna.

Of the national parks funding, $71 million will help control pest animals and weeds and improve fire protection.

The budget also includes $121 million for the Environment Protection Agency, which helps enforce pollution controls.

Sydney's Taronga Zoo and Dubbo's Taronga Western Plains Zoo will get $17 million.

Another $26 million is being spent on Sydney's Centennial Parklands and Moore Park.

And $220 million will be spent funding the state's Solar Bonus Scheme, which pays owners of solar panels for feeding power back into the common grid.

$26 million is being spent on Sydney's Centennial Parklands and Moore Park while Taronga and Dubbo zoos to get $17 million. I recon $20 million of that should be moved to the zoos to add to their $17 million.

 

[Jet]

Agree with Monty and I don't understand why Moore Park is the responsibility of the environment portfolio or even the state government rather than local Council? - and especially spending that much on a bunch of artificial duck ponds and grassy hills when the environment portfolio has been so hard hit in recent years. Perhaps its a heritage thing?