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

Native forest logging is a violent assault on nature from a mendicant industry that cannot stand on its own two feet. It indiscriminately slaughters countless native animals, it poisons our rivers and waterways, it destroys ecosystems, it pollutes the air, it despoils landscapes and it cooks the planet. The sooner it ends the better. Just end it now and help people through the transition. If folks in here who like to cosplay as if they support regional communities were serious about regional jobs they would invest in things like rewilding and looking after the place—turn people who currently trash our forests into people who look after our forests, embed carbon into our forests and into our soils and look after the place rather than trash it. That is how you should help regional people move into the future. Stop being such hypocrites. (Time expired)