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

This motion calls on the Prime Minister to ensure the forest agreement in Tasmania, which she signed up to on 7 August, be carried through. I move:

That the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, on the next day of sitting, report to the Senate on the failure of the Prime Minister (Ms Gillard) to uphold the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Tasmania, in particular clauses 25 to 27 which stipulated immediate protection of 430000 hectares of high conservation value forests where logging, including clear-felling and burning of ancient forests and wildlife habitat, is continuing.