Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 23  
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Output 1.4 expenditure		
Hansard Page ECITA:	29

Senator Webber asked:
for details of the year to date expenses for Output 1.4 (Heritage).

Answer/s:
Expenses for the Heritage Output (1.4) to the end of February 2007 are:
Departmental:  $13,706,000
Administered:  $7,893,000

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  24
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Pastoralists (Nomination of Cape Range – Ningaloo
		Reef for World Heritage)
Hansard Page ECITA:	35
Senator Siewert asked:
Senator SIEWERT—Has the WA government written back explaining why they cannot make the pastoralists happy or that they do not think it is an issue or they have tried to resolve it and cannot and will not proceed? Or have they written back, saying, ‘Watch this space’?
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Senator SIEWERT—I want to know whether the minister is now going, ‘Well, I’m not happy with your response’ or whether WA has not tried to explain it yet.

Answer/s:
The WA Minister, the Hon Mark McGowan, wrote to the former Minister, Senator Campbell, on 15 February 2006. The letter advised of further consultation on boundary issues but did not directly address the unresolved grievances of pastoralists. In his reply of 18 May 2006 Minister Campbell reiterated that the Australian Government would not support a World Heritage nomination until all outstanding issues affecting pastoral leaseholders were satisfactorily resolved.