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Fragment    Next Fragment Wednesday, 15 July 1998 Page: 6103  Mr
NAIRN (11:31 AM) —I support this Regional Forest Agreements Bill
1998 . I support it on behalf of my constituents throughout
Eden-Monaro who are desperately looking forward to some security
when it comes to the native forest hardwood timber industry.
They are desperately seeking security because they have had
nothing but insecurity for the past decade or so, particularly
under the former federal Labor government's disastrous timber
industry policies.  I remember visiting the Harris-Daishowa
woodchip mill in the lead-up to the 1996 federal election. They
proudly showed me a document, signed a few years earlier by the
Prime Minister of the day, Bob Hawke, and the Premier of New
South Wales of the day, Nick Greiner. That document was a wood
supply agreement that guaranteed certain wood supplies up to the
year 2009. One would think that a docume