Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Lambie, I will take your interjection because that is exactly right: it is a fire hazard. In fact, during the tragic bushfires at Dunalley a couple of years ago the residue stacks around that sawmill at Dunalley were one factor in the destruction of that sawmill. Yet the Labor Party sits by and allows this process to continue while hardworking and honest timber workers in the southern forests of Tasmania have their livelihoods threatened by the fact that the Labor Party here in Canberra will not support their livelihoods, despite the fact—