00:00In 2011, in a Senate inquiry, they did miss out in a listing across the whole nation.
00:08Queensland, New South Wales and ACT got a vulnerable listing under the EPBC Act, but
00:15the Victorian government argued, please don't do this to us, we've got a logging industry,
00:19we don't want you to list it.
00:21And that was 2012.
00:22So 12 years later, I believe the plight of the koala is worse and it was upgraded to
00:29endangered.
00:30So in 12 years, things got worse and I just believe that every single koala in Australia
00:37needs protection and that's why I want a Koala Protection Act.
00:40The joke is when you have to get an animal listed, you actually have to count dead bodies.
00:44So over my 36-year career, all I've done is count dead bodies and now the CSIRO have got
00:50$10 million to count koalas and their final date is 2032.
00:57And I'm arguing, this is an endangered species, I don't believe our federal government is
01:01taking any of this seriously enough and I think we actually put out a thing today, if
01:07there's 400,000 koalas in Victoria, they're probably on the tram, so watch out.
01:11I'm just so tired of it.
01:14Counting instead of protecting the habitats, that's the key.
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