Senator Conroy: The Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question: (1) (a) The Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement commits to honouring native forest wood supply contracts in existence at the time of signing the agreement, and to retiring sufficient volume of native forest sawlog supply to achieve the conservation and wood supply objectives of the Agreement. While there will be no increase in total contracted wood supply from public native forests, it is possible that individual contracts may be renewed or varied within the overall total. (b) The details of the voluntary sawlog contract buy-back program for sawmiller exits have yet to be finalised but it is the Commonwealth's expectation that at least some of the retired native forest wood supply contracts could be replaced by 'plantation priority' contracts at some time in the future, subject to availability of suitable plantation-sourced timber. (2) See answer to 1(a), above. (3) See answer to 1(a), above.