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Growth Plan for Tasmanian Forests
Type of vote: Motion (Final Motion) - final vote Moved by: Liberals | Wednesday, 4 September 2019 |
Passed | Supported | Opposed |
Liberals | Greens, Labor |
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Original Motion That the House:— (1) Supports the Hodgman Majority Liberal Government’s Strategic Growth Plan for Tasmania Forests, Fine Timber and Wood Fibre. (2) Notes:— (a) our forest growth plan is built on the pillars of resource security, financial sustainability, job security, research and innovation, and a stronger role for the private sector; (b) that through the positive actions of the Hodgman Liberal Government we have seen a 70% increase in the volume of wood fibre delivered from the State’s sustainable production forests; (c) that the Labor Party’s revised State Platform commits Tasmanian Labor to support ‘the 2019 policy developed by Federal Labor to grow Tasmania’s forest industry’; (d) that Paragraph 73 of Chapter 4 of Labor’s National Platform is explicit: ‘Labor will continue to support the implementation of the Tasmanian Forestry Agreement (TFA) as a future pathway for the forest industry in Tasmania. This includes providing resource security for the iconic special timbers industry, under agreed terms. Labor supports this as a broad industry plan to achieve the outcomes intended from the TFA’; (e) that the Labor-Green Tasmanian forestry deal resulted in the loss of more than 4,000 jobs – two out of every three jobs in the industry; (f) that the Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Rebecca White MP told the ABC on 20 March 2017 that she has ‘no regrets’ about this disastrous forestry deal; and (g) that the Greens policy is to close Tasmania’s native forestry industry. (3) Calls on Labor to abandon its plan for a return to the dark days of the TFA. |
All Votes
Final Motion - 4 Sep 2019 (Passed)
Motion passed without amendment.
Amendment - 4 Sep 2019 (Negatived)
Rewrites the motion to call on the Federal Government to reverse its decision to protect forests containing Black Gum and Brookers Gum.