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

I can only infer from that that there wasn't a direct consultation. You're saying 'broadly', but it's not clear to me whether there was actually a conversation between, for example, AFPA, the VFPA or the TFPA and the government around what's in and what's out here. We've already had a bit of a discussion about the prohibited investments and the Australian Greens press release that I read into Hansard the other day. I know it was touched on before as this amazing level of cooperation that we're seeing between Labor and the Greens, which is alarming for industries like forestry and more generally, but—

An honourable senator: It's a power-sharing government.

It's a power-sharing government, yes, but I would be interested to explore these prohibited investments criteria. The three areas that have been outlined are the extraction of coal or natural gas, the construction of pipeline infrastructure and the logging of native forests—I think I heard you say earlier that that was never the intention of the government. Was it added in later as an internal amendment, after a consultation draft or something?