#7.  A message to Greens senator Janet Rice, and some links to read...

... as well as being poorly advised, and extremely unhelpful. It is a good thing you will not be able to implement them.

Here is a link to a video of a debate held in Canberra on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, staged by AFPA, the Australian Forest Products Association:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do9UCXzCgAE

Others on the panel included current Parliamentary Secretary for Forests, Liberal Senator Anne Ruston, and Labor's Shadow Minister for Forests, Joel Fitzgibbon.

Janet, what you said on that occasion would wreck the Australian timber industry, which has a turnover of around $20 billion annually, and which employs over 120,000 people directly in full-time equivalent positions, and which contributes many more jobs in downstream processing and manufacturing. You should also note that this country still has a trade deficit in timber of around $2 billion annually, and some of that timber coming in is probably stained with the blood of the Orang Utan.... it certainly wouldn't come from forests as well managed as ours!

Does the term perverse environmental outcome mean anything to you?

You are also pushing for a Great Forest National Park in Victoria, and are party to the claim that the timber in that region would be worth more standing, and included in carbon accounting. What rubbish!  In fact, here is a claim that counters that, and it is much more credible:

http://ausfpa.com.au/media-releases/report-reveals-the-true-value-of-the-sustainable-native-forest-industry/

For pity's sake, electorate of Australia, spare us from this nonsense...!