Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I just want to respond on this particular motion which is actually calling on the government to withdraw the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Tasmania on the basis that a withdrawal of that agreement would in some way guarantee the cultural heritage of Tasmanian timber communities. In fact, it is exactly the other way around because the timber communities actually approached—

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