Senate debates
Monday, 17 March 2014
Bills
Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, True-up Shortfall Levy (Excise) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013; In Committee
9:39 pm
Mark Furner (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source
I would like to know how the government intend to address that particular issue. If there are going to be increases in climatic change and more intense cyclones and cyclonic wet weather, how are they going to maintain those types of trees? Senator Macdonald would know very well what happened with Cyclone Larry, when it came through that particular northern part of Queensland. It stripped the forests up there and left them bare. If the government are going to go to all this trouble planting trees, are they really wasting their time in doing tree plantations in the areas of North Queensland where there is an increase in cyclones?
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