Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

Native forestry is here to stay, and our government backs it. It's an inconvenient truth for the Greens, but so too did the Federal Court, which found the Tasmanian regional forestry agreement to be valid, and it supports our view that RFAs are the best way to manage our native forest industry. It is important to note the Greens' hypocrisy, when Senator Rice herself said in this place, 'We should celebrate the plantation based industry,' and when the Greens party's platform is to move to 100 per cent plantation source timber. While the way this motion is worded is clumsy in asking for a plan to transition workers out of the plantation timber industry, the Greens can't have it both ways.