Election 2016: Greg Hunt accused of breaching caretaker provisions over bats

By Peter Hannam
Updated June 7 2016 - 10:14am, first published June 1 2016 - 5:26pm
Greg Hunt at the May 16 Eurobodalla council meeting where he promised EPBC exemption for bat dispersal. Photo: Emily Barton, Batemans Bay Post
Greg Hunt at the May 16 Eurobodalla council meeting where he promised EPBC exemption for bat dispersal. Photo: Emily Barton, Batemans Bay Post
The grey-headed flying fox, a native Australian bat, has become an election issue. Photo: Greg Wood
The grey-headed flying fox, a native Australian bat, has become an election issue. Photo: Greg Wood

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has been accused of using laws to protect threatened species of the political kind by intervening during the election period to approve the dispersal of a huge colony of flying foxes near Batemans Bay on the NSW coast.

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