Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

That goes to the point. If you aren't able to tell us what is a criminal act in each state and whether the use of a carriage service is then going to come under the auspices of their specific legislation, then you actually can't tell us how this law is going to apply in different states. For example, if you have people protesting at a woodchip mill, what I want to know is whether it is an offence to then send somebody a text to say, 'Come and join this protest at the woodchip mill.'

That woodchip mill is processing—to use a polite term—part of the destruction of our precious forest that is on public land. These are forests that we need to be protecting for their wildlife, their water, their tourism value and their carbon stores and for the natural heritage of Australia. They are our public forests on our public land. What you are saying, Minister, is that this law would then impose outrageous penalties, if somebody is protesting about that at the woodchip mill where these logs are being sent off to.