Julie Owens (Parramatta, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

In fact, the forestry industry spokespeople are telling us—and they are telling the government, if they care to listen—that this green stamp, the Forest Stewardship Council, the FSC, is incredibly important for the future of Australian forestry industries. Malaysian-owned Ta Ann, which is a veneer maker in Tasmania that employs 110 people, uses only the FSC-approved wood in its timber mills and is now using that FSC certificate to promote its products in new markets and to break into the plywood-manufacturing industry in Australia. It is a market that is currently dominated by imports from countries where forest practices are simply not as rigorous as they are in Tasmania.

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