Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

And quite false—there was no such addition to the World Heritage areas in Tasmania under the Howard government. Though the minister was minister for forests, I ask him to go back and look at that, because he will find that he is quite wrong. What I wanted to point out and underline here is that thousands of people did generously donate to the court costs over the four or five years. It was proven in the courts, and logging was stopped because of the disruption of forests and the habitats of rare and endangered Australian species.