Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

You called it a drug dealer's defence. Some of us have actually spent a lot of time in South-East Asia and in the forests of South-East Asia and are aware of the—when we, in this country, don't use any timber other than plantation timber then there's a discussion to be had. The reality is we still use timber products. What we need to do is make sure we have a sustainable industry and we continue to increase plantations, which have increased substantially over the last 20 years, as you know, both in acreage but also in the proportion of the industry. But I will push back on the assertion about drug dealers. It is a reasonable proposition to say we live in a global economy and we ought to be trying to ensure the environmental protections occur everywhere— (Time expired)