Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) | Hansard source

Senator Lambie, you raise an issue that has been a great topic not just with public forestry but with fishing in public waters as well. These are two areas that are controlled by state governments, so it would be inappropriate for us as a federal government to go into that space. But I would encourage state governments, as the Labor Party contribution earlier went to, to think about how we protect primary producers—our fishers and foresters, in the main—from this type of behaviour when they're on public land. But, to answer your question: as you say, if private enterprises are leasing the crown land for that processing facility, they'll be covered; otherwise it will be up to state governments to deal with that.