Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

That was the Labor Party’s previous representative for primary industries interjecting. No wonder they dumped you like a hot potato! You were sent to the back bench and that is where you deserve to rot if those are your comments on these issues. In Queensland you cannot cut down native vegetation. It is just not allowed. It is banned by state legislation. So where do you have to go to put these carbon sinks? There is only one place to go. You cannot go to Queensland and take down native vegetation; it is all covered by legislation. So you can only go onto prime agricultural land. From a practical point of view, that is where the trees grow fastest and where the water and rainfall are. That is why people are going to go onto prime agricultural land.