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Oct 23, 2026
Barbara MillerHOST
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Barbara MillerHOST
Coming up a little later, laws are passed in the New South Wales Parliament for the creation of the Great Koala National Park.
Barbara MillerHOST
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Barbara MillerHOST
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Barbara MillerHOST
Rachel Hayter reporting there.
Barbara MillerHOST
After a marathon debate in the Upper House, the New South Wales Parliament has passed legislation to create the state's second largest national park.
Barbara MillerHOST
The state government says the Great Koala National Park is a significant win for the environment.
Barbara MillerHOST
and will protect over 100 species on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Penny SharpeGUEST
We're about to run out of landfill in Greater Sydney by... 2030 if we don't find ways to keep things out of landfill and to increase recycling to deal with this people will not be able to have their red bin picked up we've got we can manage these things sensibly and that's what we'll do
Mark LevyHOST
all right let me throw an example at you and i want to come to the koala national park in just a second i want to throw this example at you right so say something like a domino's a mcdonald's a kfc businesses that have franchises some run just one venue others run many Could we end up in a position where some venues owned by one entity will be forced to have reusable tableware while others won't?
Penny SharpeGUEST
We want to have it flexible so that it actually responds to the circumstances that people are
Mark LevyHOST
at.
Mark LevyHOST
I'm sure we'll get a response.
Mark LevyHOST
And if you'd like to have your say, folks, 131873 to respond to what the minister's had to say this morning.
Mark LevyHOST
Away from this, Penny, you've been in Parliament quite late last night and back at it again this morning for this legislation to get through to create the great Koala National Park.
Mark LevyHOST
Where are you up to with this? It sounds like it's going to be another long day.
Mark LevyHOST
Away from this, Penny, you've been in Parliament quite late last night and back at it again this morning for this legislation.
Mark LevyHOST
to get through to create the great Koala National Park.
Mark LevyHOST
Where are you up to with this? It sounds like it's going to be another long day.
Penny SharpeGUEST
Yes, I think so.
Mark LevyHOST
Away from this, Penny, you've been in Parliament quite late last night and back at it again this morning for this legislation.
Mark LevyHOST
to get through to create the great Koala National Park.
Mark LevyHOST
Where are you up to with this? It sounds like it's going to be another long day.
Penny SharpeGUEST
Yes, I think so.
Murray GriffinHOST
And speaking of exciting, there's an exciting development in New South Wales.
Murray GriffinHOST
The state government has just introduced a bill to parliament that will establish the Great Koala National Park.
Murray GriffinHOST
The bill will add more than 178,000 hectares of state forest and other crown land to the existing National Park Network on the New South Wales Mid-North Coast, protecting important habitat for about 12,000 koalas, 36,000 gliders and more than 100 threatened species.
Murray GriffinHOST
And that addition will create a protected area spanning more than 475,000 hectares, which will make it one of the largest parks in New South Wales.
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Ben FordhamHOST
We've got a big change coming for the Great Koala National Park.
Ben FordhamHOST
There'll be a range of new activities allowed on site.
Ben FordhamHOST
This is on the New South Wales north coast.
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Australia's New South Wales government has introduced legislation to establish one of the country's largest national parks, protecting habitat for an estimated twelve thousand koalas and more than one hundred threatened species.
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The proposed Great Koala National Park would cover over four hundred and seventy-five thousand hectares, combining existing conservation areas with additional protected forests.
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The initiative also proposes using forest carbon credits to help finance conservation, although the approach remains contested.
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With legislation still awaiting approval, the project highlights the challenge of protecting biodiversity while addressing forestry jobs and conservation costs.
Vivian LangfordHOST
So it can be done.
Vivian LangfordHOST
In New South Wales, at last the logging has stopped in the northern Great Koala National Park, but there's still an argument over offsets.
Vivian LangfordHOST
And you'll hear some discussion of that tonight.
Vivian LangfordHOST
Meanwhile, in the south of the state, down round Eden and the border with Victoria, there is a corridor right up to the Illawarra, which could become the Great Southern Forest.
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Sue HigginsonGUEST
But I must say, the Bob Brown Foundation and the Knitting Nannas keep turning up to Martin Place, whether they have permission or not, and they have been flying the flag of ending native forest logging since I think the day Chris Minns died.
Sue HigginsonGUEST
entered into power in New South Wales and I will say this I don't think because of your work I don't think there is a day where I have been in the New South Wales Parliament for the last four years where I haven't been talking about ending native forest logging, greater gliders, quolls, all of the reasons why we need to end native forest logging.
Sue HigginsonGUEST
I mean, we saw the Minns Labor government came to power with a promise to create the Great Koala National Park.
Sue HigginsonGUEST
The first two years they were in power, they logged the guts out of it.
David ShoebridgeGUEST
We have just
MelHOST
seen a split on the floor around, you know, a very contentious issue around carbon credits and the Great Koala National Park issue.
MelHOST
Would that have been difficult to navigate if it had turned out a different way and you as a leader ended up crossing the floor against your own colleagues?
David ShoebridgeGUEST
No, I'm not going to engage in some retrospective hypothetical about a matter where there was a real discussion amongst the environment movement.