Mark Baker (Braddon, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

In 2004, the member for Kingsford Smith said:

Tasmania has a lot to lose thanks to logging gone mad. The state’s flourishing tourism industry is threatened by consumer reaction to carnage in the forests.

There is distress and uncertainty about the futures of the people of the north-west coast. They are concerned about their jobs, their homes, and even such matters as their kids, future schooling arrangements. It is not only on the north-west coast but throughout all of Tasmania where some 10,000 people rely on the industry for work. On the one hand, we have the Leader of the Opposition making one statement and, on the other hand, the shadow minister for the environment, who would be elected, making other statements. How long is it before the real policy is going to be announced? (Time expired)

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