Senator RICE (Victoria—Deputy Australian Greens Whip) (16:00): I seek leave to make a short statement. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Minister? Senator Ruston: I thought it was a general practice that, if you made a statement, it was an indication of your voting intention and that you weren't calling a division. I was just wondering whether Senator Rice's intention was to vote against the motion and that's why she was intending to put her position. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Rice, leave is granted for one minute. Senator RICE: The Greens will be supporting this motion because of its focus on the plantation timber sector. I'm on the record and the Greens are on the record as being strong supporters of the plantation timber sector. Indeed, we need a plan so that we can have adequate plantation timber in Australia to enable the timber industry to transition completely to 100 per cent plantation based timber. We have seen how native forest logging is not the way forward for the timber industry. The Samuel review said: … environmental considerations under the RFA Act are weaker than those imposed elsewhere for matters of national environmental significance and do not align with the assessment of significant impacts on MNES as required by the EPBC Act … That has also been confirmed by recent court decisions. We are very pleased to be supporting this motion in support of the plantation based timber industry. Question agreed to.