Richard Jones: Do the botanists know that too?
The Hon. RICK COLLESS: Many botanists know it, but the Scientific Committee does not know it. The Minister raised the issue of firewood and routine agricultural activities. Crookwell has cold winters, and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition needs to keep his winter fires burning to keep himself warm—as does the Hon. Tony Kelly, who has log fires in his house too; he has told me that. When those two honourable members go out to collect firewood on their farms, they could be reported because collecting firewood is a key threatening process and they are in breach of the Threatened Species Act. As farmers their defence would be that what they are doing is a routine agricultural activity. Stick-picking is a routine agricultural activity, is it not? Every farmer in this State has at some stage spent weeks on his farm picking up sticks and putting them on his firewood pile to burn during winter. So who ultimately will determine whether the Hon. Tony Kelly and the Deputy Leader of the Oppositi
