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representatives vote 2024-05-29#2
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Title
Bills — Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Strengthening Measures to Prevent Illegal Timber Trade) Bill 2024; Report from Federation Chamber- Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Strengthening Measures to Prevent Illegal Timber Trade) Bill 2024 - Report from Federation Chamber - End native forest logging
Description
<p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>The question is that the amendment be agreed to.</p>-
- The majority voted against an amendment to the usual second reading motion, which is "*that the bill be read a second time*". Reading a bill a second time is equivalent to agreeing with the main idea of the bill. If this amendment had been successful, if would have replaced those words with the words below.
- ### Amendment text
- > *That all words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:*
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- > *"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House:*
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- > *(1) notes that:*
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- >> *(a) each year around 300,000 hectares of Australia's native forests and woodlands are lost to logging and land clearing;*
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- >> *(b) if Australia ceased all logging of native forests, the avoided emissions alone would be close to what is needed annually (15.5 Mt CO2) to achieve our national target of a 43 per cent reduction on 2005 levels of emission by 2030; and*
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- >> *(c) Australia's native forests are among the most carbon-dense in the world; and*
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- > *(2) calls on the Government to end native forest logging immediately".*
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