Senate debates
Monday, 18 November 2024
Questions without Notice
Forestry Industry
2:27 pm
Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Emergency Management) Share this | Hansard source
It can be at difficult times to answer a question that is entirely unresponsive to the information that's already been provided, so I will go back to the original information that I gave you, Senator, which is this: as part of our Nature Positive Plan, we have said that native forest logging will be regulated under national environment laws for the first time ever through national environment standards. We have put this proposition forward, and we have sought support in this chamber for the reform package. Tranche 2 is in front of you. You have yet to explain why you won't vote for those laws, which improve penalties, which improve information-gathering powers and which establish a better architecture to police environment laws and—
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