House debates

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Questions without Notice

Solomon Islands: Forestry

2:48 pm

Photo of Mark DreyfusMark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. When he met with the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands last week, did the Prime Minister offer to provide any Australian government aid to repair the environmental damage caused by a subsidiary of Axiom Forest Resources, whose logging practices on the Solomons were described in official reports as 'amongst the worst in the world'? Given the Prime Minister was chairman of Axiom Forest Resources at the time this destruction occurred, is the Prime Minister providing any advice about the delivery of this Australian government aid?

2:49 pm

Photo of Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | | Hansard source

The discussions with the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands covered many matters but they did not include the matters referred to by the honourable member.