Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Ludwig. With the government appointed mediator in Tasmania’s forest industry talks suggesting that 572,000 hectares of Tasmanian forests may be traded off to the environment movement in exchange for support for the Gunns pulp mill, would the minister advise what independent scientific work has been undertaken to assess these forests under the long-accepted scientifically based criteria, such as JANIS and CAR, to determine their suitability for removal from the existing industry wood supply?