Sustainable, regenerative forestry is the true renewable resource in Australia. It is ironic that the Greens try to ban timber from Parliament House which is covered in beautiful, durable hardwoods.
Transcript
Our Australian forestry industry is one of Australia’s largest manufacturers, employing around 80,000 hardworking people across the value chain and contributing more than $24 billion of economic turnover to our economy every year. A further 100,000 people are in jobs supported through flow-on economic activity. Yet now the people’s wealth is under threat. Green ideology working for globalist predators seeking to control people threatens all this wealth going into the pockets of everyday Australians and regional communities.
Timber—look around—is a natural material with great warmth and versatility. In this beautiful building, Australia’s seat of government, native hardwoods are used throughout the building, chosen for colour and durability. The Sydney Opera House uses timber in the public areas for the same reason. The use of timbers from all over Australia expresses our national identity. That’s probably why the globalist Greens are trying to destroy the Australian timber industry. Under globalist policies, there is no national identity—only unrelenting oppression of individual sovereignty and slavish adherence to a woke agenda that borders on evil. Regional forestry agreements preserve the important principle of competitive federalism and states’ rights. Regional forestry agreements protect our timber industry, and One Nation will defend the right of states to defend their timber industry.
One Nation strongly supports the Australian plantation industry and the workers, communities, regions, states and nation that it supports. Timber is the original renewable building product. We will hear about a circular economy in this parliament where the elites that own and use the green movement get to buy expensive new things while everyday Australians are left with second-hand and recycled goods to rent—supposedly in the name of sustainability. Like hell!
We are one community, we are one nation and plantation timber is an amazing, beautiful, durable building product that should be available to everyone.
Isn’t it a pity Anna Bligh sold our Toolara pine plantations out to the Americans.We should never forget.
Thanks Senator.
It is nearly impossible to buy hardwood timber for repairing old timber houses – let alone building new ones.
Old Qldr houses are still surviving after 100 years. But pine will be eaten by termites, and steel will rust, long before that time.
Why isn’t hardwood timber available? Partly because many State Forests have been made into National Parks. The Greens campaigned against excessive woodchipping – rightly so – but they never admitted that their policies were going to deny Australians the right to live in a hardwood timber house.
Partly because builders have been sold on “softwood substitution”.
In my area, Childers, many cane farms are switching over to Macadamias and Avocadoes. But they are very likely planting too many. The bottom could fall out of the market, eg in the case of war with China, and then there’ll be a tree-pull program.
It would be better to plant a good portion of that ex-cane land to hardwood timber. This would provide a supply for future generations. This land is irrigated, so the trees should grow well, but a 50-year horizon is required, not a 10-year one. The banks can only think short-term. We need government to introduce a long-term perspective.
You can have National Parks with logging inside those Parks!
Macadamias – I remember a woman & husband, who had been growers in Southern Queensland and they got out, because in all conscience they could no longer pour the various chemicals’ mandated onto their crop, and sell it knowingly to the Public, that was roughly 25 years ago.