00:01Logs from Tasmania destined for Victoria.
00:05Four Corners last night revealing some are from public native forests,
00:09despite assurances they were only from private forests.
00:12The advice was received from Sustainable Timbers Tasmania.
00:17That advice, it appears, was not correct at the time.
00:22Sustainable Timber Tasmania correcting the record on Saturday,
00:25two days before Four Corners aired,
00:27saying it had since become aware that some logs were onsold and processed interstate,
00:32and it was not informed of these arrangements at the time.
00:36The on-seller, the Neville Smith Group, saying it was a short-term arrangement
00:40while it retooled its southwood mill for greater plantation processing.
00:44The company sent more than 6,000 tonnes of private and public logs to Victoria over a two-year period.
00:51Local processing is very important for local jobs, and it is,
00:55and that's why it will now be mandatory when it comes to local processing of timber.
01:02The Greens suggesting the Auditor-General should investigate how native logs are ending up in Victoria.
01:08What's been sent to Victoria, how much and for how long, and what's it cost Tasmanians?
01:14Four Corners also showed the extent of Victorian compensation, or penalty payments,
01:19provided to the part of Victorian Government-owned Western Junction sawmill near Launceston,
01:25raising questions about whether that distorted the market for other sawmills.
01:29Where Tasmanian timber goes commercially is normal market activity for the same produce.
01:34That's a Victorian Government issue.
01:36STT says it has substantially completed its wood supply contracts covering until 2040,
01:41which will require on-island processing and have an increased emphasis on plantation timber.
01:47That means I'll have to follow the exchange.
01:48The Americans on the left are grades for Ratby,
01:48the criminals can never take place.
01:49The Americans on the left are my grades.
01:53The Americans on the left are the worst.
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