Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I ask a question regarding forestry in Papua New Guinea. I ask the minister whether it is true, as stated in a new report from the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Papua New Guinea Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights, that $400 million of illegal logging material is imported into Australia each year? Will the government stand by its pre-election commitments and statements from the current Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Abetz, that it will bring an end to this illegal influx of wood into Australia, which has some pretty terrible community consequences back in Papua New Guinea?