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Lee is the Australian Greens forests spokesperson, together with Senator Bob Brown who is responsible for Tasmanian Forests. The Greens recognise the essential role played by mature forest ecosystems in providing a home for wildlife, protecting water resources and storing carbon.  

Lee is campaigning to end to the destruction of native forests and the export of woodchips and whole logs from native forests. She is also working to ensure native forests are not used for the generation of electricity and other forms of industrial energy, such as wood pellets.

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Tasmania's forests - what is actually protected?

16 May 2013
Many numbers have been reported as to what area of forest will be protected in Tasmania as part of the Tasmanian Forest Agreement (TFA)
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Inquiry into Auditor-General's Reports on Tasmanian Forestry Grants Programs

07 May 2013
Inquiry into Auditor-General's Reports on Tasmanian Forestry Grants Programs
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Forest industry assistance package exposes hollow intergovernmental deal

02 May 2013
The signing of the new Intergovernmental Agreement on Forestry and the accompanying funding package reveals that what started o...
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Tasmanian Forest Agreement fails - entrenches native forest logging

02 May 2013
Lee Rhiannon blogs that Tasmanian’s forests are still not safe from logging because the new Tasmanian Forests Agreement d...
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Tasmanian forests: a message from Christine

01 May 2013
From our beginning, the Greens have stood with the community to protect Australia's precious forests.
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Community and The Australian Greens will not be "silenced" Prime Minister

01 May 2013
In Tasmania today the Prime Minister called for conservationists to be silenced in the follow up to the Tasmanian Parliament vo...
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Tasmanian Legislative Council wreckers of forest peace deal

16 Apr 2013
Today the Tasmanian Legislative Council drove a bulldozer through key clauses of the Tasmanian forest peace deal, the Australia...
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Greens welcome Federal Court challenge to Minister Burke’s mining approval for the Tarkine

03 Apr 2013
Australian Greens Leader, Senator Christine Milne has welcomed today's move by the Tarkine National Coalition to lodge a case i...
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Greens achieve senate inquiry into forestry grants

19 Mar 2013
The Senate has today agreed to inquire into the audit reports of both the Tasmanian community forest agreement and the exit forest grants.
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Christine Milne Senate Question: Voluntary Exit Grants Program

18 Mar 2013
Christine Milne asked Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Joe Ludwig, whether he has referred to the Australian F...
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