Legislative Council - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2012-02-14 Daily Xml

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FOREST INDUSTRY STRATEGY

The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS (16:54): I have a supplementary question. Given that the Hills and northern forestry regions are relatively very small, how will ForestrySA viably manage these assets once the link to the South-East forests is severed?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women) (16:55): I have just outlined the strategy of priorities that underpin our forestry endeavours in terms of individual regional issues. We have processes to help us identify those and work through and strategise around those, but as I have outlined we have a set of several principles that underpin the way we manage our forests here in South Australia.