Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that the Tasmanian Premier, Lara Giddings, opposes National Heritage listing for the Tarkine and is all for mining the largest tract of temperate rainforest and the last remaining habitat for disease-free endangered Tasmanian devils, how can the government be confident that handing over environmental powers to Tasmania under the EPBC Act at COAG on 7 December will see the environmental and cultural values of the Tarkine protected?