Senator THORP (Tasmania) (14:10): My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Abetz. I refer the minister to the overnight decision of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee rejecting the government's proposal to delist 74,000 hectares of the Tasmanian World Heritage area. Can the minister confirm that the government's justifications were described as 'feeble'— Senator Ian Macdonald: By who? Senator THORP: Portugal—and that, if successful, Australia would have become the third country, after Oman and Tanzania, to delist one of its own natural World Heritage areas in the past 40 years.