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Nationals' Nash quits over tree plantation tax break

Posted December 1, 2008 18:08:00

The Nationals deputy leader in the Senate, Fiona Nash, has quit her position as an opposition parliamentary secretary.

Senator Nash is resigning from the job because she and the other Nationals senators will vote with the Greens to try to have a tax break on tree plantations overturned.

The Greens say the scheme is not the right way to create carbon sinks to fight greenhouse gases.

But the Nationals say it will mean productive farming land is taken over for trees which are grown only as a tax break.

The Liberals and the Government will vote together to ensure the tax break stays.

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