Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I'm here to speak up for the threatened species who don't have a voice in this place—species like the beautiful swift parrot, which is being driven to extinction by habitat destruction facilitated by the native forest logging industry in my home state of Tasmania. That beautiful little bird is now on the IUCN Red List because its habitat is being destroyed, hundreds of hectares at a time, by the brutal, rampant industry that strip-mines our native forest in my home state of Tasmania. That's why the Greens are in this place, and we will never go quietly into the night while people like you—the environmental destroyers, the rapers of our planet—continue on this dark path that you are on today.