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121 - Environment - MT WARNING NATIONAL PARK

Latham, Mark to the Minister for Energy, Minister for Climate Change, Minister for the Environment, and Minister for Heritage
MT WARNING NATIONAL PARK

(1) Can the Minister please advise if the National Parks and Wildlife Service has stationed security guards at Mt. Warning National Park?

(2) If so:

(a) Which security company is providing this security service?

(i) What was the tender process through which their services were obtained?

(b) How many security guards are employed on site?

(c) Are the security guards engaged on a permanent, part time or other contractual basis?

(d) What is the weekly cost of stationing these security guards on site?

(e) Why is security needed?

(2) How much did the removal of the temporary council gate located on Mt. Warning, three kilometres from the Breakfast Creek carpark in February 2023, cost?

(3) What were the installation costs of the replacement steel barriers across the park entrance at the National Park boundary?
Answer -

I am advised:

(1) Security has been engaged to implement the park closure in Wollumbin National Park.

(a) Safe Security Services has been engaged.

(i) Safe Security Services was engaged after a Request for Quotation from a registered small to medium regional enterprise.

(b) For personal safety, two guards must be on site given the remote location.

(c) The company is engaged on a casual hourly basis.

(d) Approximately $7000 per week.

(e) Security was engaged to ensure public safety while the park remains under repair and to ensure the current closure of the Summit Walking Track and the Wollumbin Aboriginal Place is maintained. It was an immediate response to increased attempts to illegally access the closed park once the barrier across Mount Warning Road was removed (1-2 April 2023) and then over the Easter long weekend (7-10 April 2023). Security services have been extended due to significant numbers of people still trying to unlawfully access the site.

(2) There was no cost to the National Parks and Wildlife Service in relation to removing the gate on Mount Warning Road. The temporary gate was removed by Tweed Shire Council as part of maintenance works on the road.

(3) There is no cost for the temporary barriers erected at the park boundary. The temporary safety barriers are owned by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and are used to secure building sites as standard practice.

A permanent NPWS gate has been erected at the park boundary for an estimated cost of $11,500, excluding GST.

Question asked on 29 May 2023 (session 58-1) and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 15
Answer received on 20 June 2023 and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 30

The Parliament of New South Wales acknowledges and respects the traditional lands of all Aboriginal people, and pays respects to all Elders past and present. We acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which the Parliament of New South Wales stands.