Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens will be supporting this motion because of its focus on the plantation timber sector. I'm on the record and the Greens are on the record as being strong supporters of the plantation timber sector. Indeed, we need a plan so that we can have adequate plantation timber in Australia to enable the timber industry to transition completely to 100 per cent plantation based timber. We have seen how native forest logging is not the way forward for the timber industry. The Samuel review said:

… environmental considerations under the RFA Act are weaker than those imposed elsewhere for matters of national environmental significance and do not align with the assessment of significant impacts on MNES as required by the EPBC Act …

That has also been confirmed by recent court decisions. We are very pleased to be supporting this motion in support of the plantation based timber industry.

Question agreed to.