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Koalas deserve more, Greens say
The New South Wales Greens have called on the Minns government to meet its pre-election promise to spend $80m to establish a Great Koala National park on the state’s mid-north coast.
The Greens MP Sue Higginson said the government had only committed $1.5m this year’s budget for the national park and a total of $28.5m for the project over the next four years.
Higginson said:
The upgrade of the koala crossing at Appin Road and the Georges River Koala Park have both received almost as much funding at $22.5m and $22.1m respectively.
These are both important projects but this is not what the government promised.
This is unbelievable – we are still seeing logging operations in forests that are critical koala habitat within the area for the Great Koala National Park and now we see the Government is not even committing the money it promised.
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