Tens of thousands sign petitions on National Parks.

Two e-petitions sponsored by Gippsland members of state parliament opposing expansion of Victoria's National Parks have attracted almost 30,000 signatures.
The response has led to Member for Narracan Wayne Farnham and Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath extending the timeline for signatures to the petitions to be presented to parliament.
Mr Farnham said in addition to 11,500 signatures on his e-petition he had thousands of paper petitions to submit.
Ms Bath's petition has to date gathered more than 17,500 supporters.
The future of public access to state forests in Central Victoria has been under scrutiny by the government following the closure of native timber harvesting at the start of this year.
Ms Bath and Mr Farnham claimed the government was planning to exclude thousands of Victorians and families accessing the bush for camping, hunting, hiking, mountain biking, four wheel driving, prospecting and fishing.
Ms Bath said the positive response to the petitions was sending a clear message to the government - "no more new national parks."
She said the government's green ideology and a "lock and leave approach" had zero regard for bush users and would not improve environmental outcomes or biodiversity.
"Victoria's National Parks are already neglected and mismanaged by the state government that has led to overgrown tracks, increase bushfire risk and a boom in invasive weeds and feral animals".
It fails to comprehend that public land is "best managed with boots not suits" and has 60 per cent of staff of the department of energy, environment and climate change operating out of metropolitan Melbourne, Ms Bath added.