Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

Just for the record, the Greens assertion is: sex industry offences and child prostitution. Gunns said nothing of the sort in their submission. But these outlandish claims ran to three volumes. Three volumes is what the Greens, through Senator Milne, submitted to the RPDC. As the Greens are being more and more marginalised in this country, their outrageous claims become more and more extreme, more and more unsubstantiated, as they try to gather around themselves a degree of support. Tasmanians know that the only federal party genuinely in support of value-adding to the Tasmanian timber product is the Howard government’s.