Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Is the minister aware that the 6,000 hectares of the Upper Florentine that is now organised for logging and being couped is ringed on three sides by the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area? Will the minister undertake immediately to stop the road activity which is the precedent that will set the way for logging in that area? Alternatively, will he support a World Heritage endangered listing for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area because the Prime Minister has failed to keep his promise? In his policy ‘Preserving Tasmania’s old growth forests’, he promised the immediate protection of 18,700 hectares of old growth forest in the Styx and the Florentine along the eastern boundary of the world heritage area?