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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes the financial plight of Tasmanian logging contractors, who have endured frequent cuts to timber quotas and shutdowns of mills and chippers; and

(b)

calls on the Australian Government to help the Tasmanian Government:

(i)

fund a financial exit package of a minimum of $20 million that allows those contactors facing financial ruin to leave the industry with dignity,

(ii)

assess fair compensation for those contractors leaving the industry,

(iii)

recover from Gunns Limited and Forestry Tasmania the total cost of the compensation package by the imposition of a levy on all future woodchip sales, and

(iv)

conserve an areas equivalent to the total contracted volumes of wood from those contactors who exit the industry.