Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Well, I'm so scared about using the word 'forest' that in this very answer I mentioned that we remain committed to applying national environmental standards to regional forestry agreements. I'm so scared about it that I said it in Senate estimates and I've said it several times since becoming the minister. I'll say it one more time: we will be applying the national environmental standards to forests.