Senate debates
Thursday, 28 November 2019
Questions without Notice
Forestry
2:44 pm
Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
Today marks half a century of exporting woodchip from the native forests in south-eastern New South Wales, through Eden—50 years of devastating impacts on those forests. The global market for native forest woodchip exports is at rock bottom, yet we continue to log native forests instead of meeting demand through sustainably grown plantation timber. What is this government doing to complete the transition to a 100 per cent plantation based timber product industry?
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