Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

After that short delay, we're back! Minister, let's go back to the things that would be covered under this act in my state of Victoria. I want to talk you through a scenario. Say there is logging occurring on public land—logging of our precious native forest, which is destroying our natural heritage, destroying threatened wildlife, destroying our water quality and quantity, destroying our carbon stores, destroying our forests. The logs from this logging operation are then transported to a chipmill or a pulp mill where they are going to be processed into woodchips. Protesters who are concerned about this logging operation feel that it is their right, and their civil responsibility in terms of protecting our native forests, to conduct a protest action at this wood processing facility—at this chipmill or pulp mill. Can you confirm for me, then, that it would be an offence under this legislation for any person or organisation to send out an email or a text message encouraging people to join this protest—that that would be caught under the provisions of this legislation?