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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer to the report in the Age on Tuesday last, which says:

A council of state and federal forestry ministers last week endorsed a statement calling on the Green Building Council to accept the industry-backed—

that is the logging and woodchipping industry backed—

Australian Forestry Standard for sustainable timber.

I ask the minister: what talks he has had, if any, with his colleague the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry about this clear government move, coming from vested interests in the logging industry, to corrupt the standards being put forward by the independent Green Building Council of Australia?