Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

A carpenter and joiner. I know that native forest timbers will provide you with the best-quality timbers. They're all around us today here in this chamber. You won't make a piece of furniture that will become an antique one day out of plantation timber. You won't have high-quality veneers. You won't make exquisite musical instruments, and you won't make the types of boats that we celebrated at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, in Hobart, last week. We need a balanced regime of forestry, one that looks after our environment but also retains all of the values from both native and plantation regimes. (Time expired)