Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator Milne, I move:

That the Senate—

(a) condemns the Abbott Government for its attempt to reduce the size of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area by 74 000 hectares to enable logging of high conservation value forests;

(b) supports the findings of the World Heritage Committee that the areas proposed for excision satisfy World Heritage criteria;

(c) notes that commercial markets reject timber products from primary native forests as unsustainable and uncertified;

(d) understands that the Abbott Government's proposed boundary adjustments are not based on evidence that this area does not contain world heritage values;

(e) supports the 2013 boundary modification; and

(f) calls on the World Heritage Committee to reject the request to reduce the size of the World Heritage Area.

Question agreed to.