Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

The schools. Thank you very much, Senator Williams. It is the schools; it is the teachers; it is those who start leaving because the population starts declining. If you take that productive capacity away, you do not have the economic sustainability of that regional town. And that is exactly what this legislation is going to do. If allowed to go forward it is going to remove that productive capacity, because we know that the minute those carbon sink forests are planted on that land, that is all that will happen.