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

Senator Rice is seeking to wrap up every single one of the Greens' primary headline-grabbing grievances in one supplementary question there. The truth is that there are much more complicated issues at play when it comes to fire management, to forestry management, to natural resource management than the way in which Senator Rice seeks to summarise them. That's why our government supported and drove the delivery of a royal commission into bushfires, which, I have no doubt, when it hands down its findings, will demonstrate the complexity of the issues there in relation to bush management and to making sure that the nation is better equipped when it comes to bushfires in the future to prevent them. There will be a range of land management questions and issues addressed in that report, and we will, no doubt, then work through and respond effectively to those issues. But to simply summarise it in the way in which Senator Rice does, which seems to suggest that just locking up more land would somehow— (Time expired)