Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Acting Deputy President, I have been invited by the speaker to take a point of order to object to the term that I am an ‘agent of destruction of forests’. In accepting that challenge, can I indicate that, as a member of the Howard government, I saw hundreds of thousands of extra hectares added to World Heritage listed areas and the reserves in my home state of Tasmania.