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Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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Fire Management Plans

The Hon. S.G. WADE (15:20): My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation. Given that in September 2015 your department admitted to only performing 15 of 25 prescribed burns in the Mount Lofty Ranges—

The Hon. I.K. Hunter interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The honourable member has the floor.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —can the minister advise the proportion of scheduled prescribed burns completed in the Mount Lofty Ranges during the current bushfire season?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (15:20): I have answered these questions in this place previously. All of this information is available on the interweb thing the department publishes at www.environment.sa.gov.au; the honourable member can download that or have his staff indeed download that for himself. But let's be very clear, because the opposition runs this out every single year because they don't understand these very important policy positions around prescribed burning: we only burn when it's safe. Point No. 1, the Hon. Mr Wade: we only burn when it's safe.

Whilst we plan for the future—we plan in a five-year rolling program of prescribed burns—we only burn when it's safe, and that means, necessarily, that some of our planned burns won't be conducted in the current season. They are rolled over into a future season, and that's because of safety reasons. We will always do that.

The PRESIDENT: Supplementary, the Hon. Mr Dawkins.

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