Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I was listening reflectively to your contribution and trying to indicate that I was engaging in a serious way with what you're putting to me. I suppose part of the thing that might influence your thinking on this is that the enhanced carbon sequestration on a property is not incompatible with continuing agricultural production. In fact, there are plenty of places where that is taking place right now. It's also not the only alternative use for agricultural land. If we think about some of the pressures on agricultural land, they are widespread and diverse. It is an ongoing and general question that a country ought to be thinking about carefully. I think you're assuming that these things are mutually exclusive. In many examples they are not.