Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

What's important in this space is operating to the sustainability practices that deliver sustainability for the forest themselves, sustainability of employment outcomes for those who rely on the forestry industry and sustainability of the resource for the long term. These are the practices that we deploy and operate to through the regional forestry agreements, working in concert and conjunction with the states and territories. When it comes to managing climate impacts, we are working to that according to the detailed plan that I outlined to the Senate yesterday in terms of achieving our abatement, our emissions reduction, targets that we've committed to against the very prescriptive policy measures that we took to the last election. We're delivering on those and making sure that we have an integrated approach, not one that simply says we must wipe out one industry over here to meet an objective over there but one that respects the fact that we want to continue to have— (Time expired)