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Dean from South Australia has recently
returned home from holidaying in Tasmania in March
2005. He visited many places while touring Tasmania
including Mt. Bertha, Bronte, Derwent Bridge and
the Tarkine. He has kindly sent some interesting
holiday snaps to News Tasmania for all to share.
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Gunns anti-Greens case 'muddled'
By Peter Gregory, Chief Court Reporter - April 9, 2005
Tasmanian timber company Gunns
had issued an embarrassing, confused and muddled claim in
its $6.36 million damages action against individuals and
environment groups, a Supreme Court judge heard today. Mark
Dreyfus, QC, for six of the defendants, foreshadowed applications
to strike out parts of Gunns'
216-page statement of claim lodged in December. Barristers
representing other defendants said they planned similar
action. Mr Dreyfus said further details would be sought
about the Gunns
claim, which alleged the company had been subjected to a
campaign to injure it and unlawfully interfere with its
business. "The statement (of claim) is very long, confused,
muddled, deficient in details and parts of it should be
struck out," he said. ........ Justice Bongiorno made
orders dealing with the defence information requests, and
Gunns
responses. He said a three-day hearing of "strike-out"applications
was expected in late June.
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REPORT AT THE MELBOURNE AGE... |
THIS IS WHAT
RUNS THE SHOW.... TASSIE STYLE, HELPING TO POLLUTE
YOUR PLANET.
FACT - MEMORY PROBLEMS & BELLIGERENCE ARE SYMPTOMS
OF ALCOHOL ABUSE / DEPENDENCE |
Rough Red
RICHARD GUILLIATT: FULL VERSION @ TASMANIAN
TIMES...
It took a Tragedy to turn Paul Lennon into a
state premier. But it will take a miracle to
turn him into a charming one. Richard Guilliatt
approaches (with care) the famously belligerent
Tasmanian leader. Paul Lennon looks like a brickie’s
labourer stuffed into an expensive business
suit: his barrel-shaped girth betrays a lifetime
of beer-drinking, his jowls spill over his shirt
collar, and his bristling ginger moustache and
thunderously red complexion make him look perpetually
on the brink of either rage or heart attack.
So it’s easy to imagine how startled Alistair
Graham was, back in 1989, when the future premier
of Tasmanian grabbed him by the shirt front
and shoved him up against an office wall during
a meeting in Hobart.......
.....It was shortly after this that Alistair
Graham, Peg Putt’s partner, had his close-up
encounter with Lennon during a meeting of the
Forests and Forest Industry Council in Hobart.
(For his part, Lennon says he cannot recall
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If there’s one thing that really pushes Lennon’s
buttons, however, it’s the suggestion that there
is anything improper about the government’s relationship
with big companies like Gunns.
The Edmund Rouse scandal casts a large shadow in Tasmania,
because Rouse was the chairman of Gunns
at the time he offered his $110,000 bribe to destroy
the Labor/Green accord. Evidence in the subsequent
Royal Commission showed that his main motivation was
protecting his $6 million timber investments. Bizarrely,
however, Lennon now seems to deny all of this.
Corruption where?
Aren’t Tasmanians, I ask, entitled to be wary,
given that there’s a history of corruption involving
politicians and the forestry issue?
“ Corruption where? Lennon shoots back.
Well, you had a Royal Commission here 10 or 12 years
ago….
“ What’s that got to do with forestry?”
he challenges.
Well, Edmund Rouse was the chairman of Gunns.
“ Chairman of Gunns?”
Lennon’s eyes narrow. “ Are you sure?”..........
(Reproduced from The Age Good Weekend Magazine
of 12 March 2005)
FULL VERSION @ TASMANIAN
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AS USUAL.... TASSIE STYLE |
Havoc as Forestry fires out of
control
By LINDA SMITH - 02 April 2005
FOREST regeneration fires burning out of control caused
havoc in the Huon Valley yesterday, frightening residents
and tourists and threatening World Heritage areas.
........ Alarmed residents spent the day choking on
what they described as "a hideous amount of smoke"
and prepared for the worst as fires came within kilometres
of their properties. Angry tourists were turned away
from Tahune Airwalk as Arve Rd was closed......HOBART
MERCURY...
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Global Dimming
Reporter: BBC Horizon, Broadcast: 21/03/2005
Noticed less sunshine lately?
Scientists have discovered that the amount of
sunlight reaching the Earth's surface has been
falling over recent decades. If the climatologists
are right, their discovery holds the potential
for powerful disruption to life on our planet.
Already it may have contributed to many thousands
of deaths through drought and famine. Essentially,
the phenomenon called "global dimming"
may mean that even the direst predictions about
the rate of global warming have been seriously
underestimated....
ABC
FOUR CORNERS... |
Akin to Napalm... & "This is
the third night I have been forced out
of bed due to lack of breath from the
very heavy smoke inundation in my West
Calder home."...
TASMANIAN
TIMES COMMENTS |
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Wikipedia on Global
Dimming
>Relationship to Global
Warming<
WIKIPEDIA.... |
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Burn-off rekindles
ire
By DANNY ROSE 30 March 2005
MAJOR forestry burn-off created scenes likened
to an "erupting volcano" in the still
autumn skies over Hobart yesterday. Other callers
to The Mercury said the smoke looked like a
"mushroom cloud" enveloping the suburb
of Tolmans Hill......
HOBART
MERCURY... |
Forest burns
'gas' dispute
By SIMON BEVILACQUA - 03 April 2005
THOUSANDS of tonnes of carbon pumped into
the atmosphere by forestry burn-offs are
not listed on the Australian Greenhouse
Gas Inventory -- because they are considered
to be balanced by regrowth. More than
10,000ha of Tasmanian forest, most of
it wet eucalypt, are in the pipeline to
be burned this year. For every hectare
of wet eucalypt forest burnt about 200
tonnes of carbon is released, says Forestry
Tasmania research. ........ Most of
the carbon from burn-offs is in the form
of the infamous greenhouse gas, carbon
dioxide, which is driving global warming.
......... But calls since the 1990s for
carbon dioxide from burn-offs to be included
have so far been ignored......
SUNDAY
TASMANIAN... |
Alarm bells
over plantations
By SIMON BEVILACQUA - 03 April 2005
......In 1997-1998 Indonesian forest fires
spewed between 810 million and 2.57 billion
tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.
This was equal to between 13 per cent
and 40 per cent of the mean annual global
carbon emissions from fossil fuels. Perhaps
it was the Indonesian experience that
led CSIRO scientists to ring alarm bells
in 1998 about the way forests were perceived
in Australia. Working for the Biosphere
Working Group of CSIRO's Climate Change
Research Program, Miko Kirschbaum said
production forests, considered "sinks"
in Australia, could actually be a source
of carbon dioxide pollution. Dr Kirschbaum
said the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
failed to include direct carbon loss from
fire. "It creates the anomalous situation
where forests are calculated to be carbon
sinks whereas in reality they may be losing
carbon due to the combined losses from
fires and forest harvesting," he
said. As far back as 1997 the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change said man-made
fires should be included in national inventories.
Dr Kirschbaum criticised previous data
which showed forests were sinks when in
fact they were likely sources of pollution......
SUNDAY
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TASSIE STYLE |
The Examiner runs ads as news
......Turning the pages reveals that an extraordinary
9 out of the ten articles in this ‘issues’
section are lifted virtually word for word from the
advertising supplement. ....... And Gunns
Limited is also the author of that article. The whole
thing was lifted from the Gunns’
website. ......... "The
Examiner’s article simply parrots Gunn's
own description of itself – not much journalism
in that. ...... Maybe Tasmanians are happy to have
their newspaper articles written by the government
and industry, but we think not.
ABC
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This Gunn says she's no chip off old block
By DANNY ROSE - 29 March 2005
A DIRECT descendant of the brothers who founded Gunns
Ltd has slammed the company, accusing it of using fear
tactics and exploiting Tasmania's forests. Sarah Gunn, great-granddaughter
of Thomas Gunn, has spoken out against the $1.5 billion
company which still bears her family name. ........ "My
support lies with the people being sued and it is to the
family's shame that it is happening."........
HOBART
MERCURY... |
PRESS RELEASE TRAC (TAMAR RESIDENTS ACTION
COMMITTEE) - TRAC
WEBSITE
TRAC SLAMS BILL AS GOVERNMENT FOLLY
March 18th 2005
The Tamar Residents Action Committee has slammed the government's
move to fast track the State Policies and Projects Amendment
Bill 2005 as pure folly. The Bill that passed the Lower
House late Thursday night will mean planning processes for
the proposed pulp mill at Longreach will be included under
the umbrella of Projects of State Significance, along with
approvals for a dam to be built across the Pipers River.
The coordinator of TRAC
Mr. Rochester said the essence of the amendments will mean
that the responsibility for proving the pulp mill project
will transfer from the proponent to the project itself.
"What concerns us is under the amendment the state government
opens itself to incurring further massive costs associated
with the project, costs that will be borne by the Tasmanian
taxpayer." "But the most insidious parts of this innocuous
amendment will mean that the proponent will also be able
to change in composition for example through merger or entering
into partnership, or be substituted for another proponent,
without the project failing." Mr. Rochester said. "This
opens a Pandoras box of concerns, for example, will it allow
the proponent to pass the project off before it's even started,
to a Japanese pulp and paper company?" "How will this affect
the referral process that the proponent entered into with
the Federal
Department of Environment and Heritage?" Mr. Rochester
asked. TRAC
has sought advice on this matter from the Federal Minister
for the Environment and Heritage Senator Ian Campbell, on
how his approval will be affected by the State Policies
and Projects Amendment Bill 2005. "How we interpret
the amendment is that it will also take the responsibility
from DPIWE
and place it with the RPDC
(Resources Planning and Development Commission) to decide
on any application for a dam across Pipers River." "As a
group representing more than 1,000 concerned residents in
the Tamar Valley, we're calling on all members of the Upper
House to vote against the Bill, because of its significant
ramifications for all Tasmanians," Mr. Rochester said. The
normal process for dam applications and setting management
plans for rivers in Tasmania normally takes 12 months. "We're
concerned that this part of the project is being put under
the RPDC's
umbrella so it can be fast-tracked and so stifle the normal
appeals process." "It's especially worrying when the chief
executive of Gunns
Ltd , Mr. John Gay, is on record that he'll have the
Integrated Impact Statement completed and in the hands of
the RPDC
by July, that's four months away." Mr. Rochester concluded.
MEDIA CONTACT - LES ROCHESTER, TRAC COORDINATOR. Tel:-
63947260 m.0417084470.
TRAC
WEBSITE... |
LOG
/ WOODCHIP TRUCKS IN TASMANIA - TOURISTS TAKE NOTE
"Minister Green is lazy, negligent and incompetent
on this serious safety issue and it is way past time
that he acted on these avoidable fatal risks to both
drivers and the travelling public," Mr Booth
said.
LAUNCESTON
EXAMINER 10 March 2005... (by subsciption) |
NEWS
TASMANIA OFTEN HEARS OF TASMANIAN LOG TRUCK ACCIDENTS
THAT GO UNREPORTED.
HERE ARE SOME PREVIOUS
TASMANIAN LOG TRUCK ACCIDENTS THAT DID MANAGE TO
MAKE THE NEWS
DESPITE THE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT'S COVER-UP POLICY
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Two trucks roll
10 March 2005
TWO timber industry prime movers crashed in
separate accidents south of Burnie yesterday,
prompting warnings by a local resident and the
Greens that such accidents were inevitable.
Both drivers were injured and taken to hospital.
The first accident happened about 7.45a.m. on
Mount Rd when a Volvo B-double carrying a load
of woodchips from Gunns'
Hampshire mill to the woodchip pile at the Burnie
port crashed near the Cascade Rd turn-off. Paramedics
arrived at the scene to find the driver, believed
to be a Waratah man in his 50s, outside the
vehicle with serious facial and upper body injuries.
........ For most of the day traffic between
Ridgley and Burnie was diverted through West
Mooreville Rd, where the second truck accident
happened about 2.30p.m. The truck, believed
to be co-owned by logging contractor David Wright,
was heading north when it left the road and
the driver, a Burnie man, was taken to hospital
for observation.......
THE
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Two truck crashes spark more speed limit calls
10 March 2005
Two timber industry trucks crashed in separate accidents
south of Burnie yesterday, prompting warnings by a
local resident and the Greens that such accidents
were inevitable. ....... Greens infrastructure spokesman
Kim Booth reiterated a long- standing call for Infrastructure
Minister Bryan Green to implement a maximum load height
and speed limit on timber vehicles as a matter of
urgency. "Minister Green
is lazy, negligent and incompetent on this serious
safety issue and it is way past time that he acted
on these avoidable fatal risks to both drivers and
the travelling public," Mr Booth said.
LAUNCESTON
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Log Trucks Falling Like Ninepins
........Mr Booth also reminded that professional engineer
Wolfgang Wissman advised the government over 18 months
ago of inherent design flaws
in these vehicles and load height and speed
problems that rendered them highly unstable but despite
constant pressure from the Greens, the government
has refused to act and adopt Mr Wissman’s interim
solution of limiting load heights to 3.8 metres and/or
reduce maximum speed to 80 kilometres per hour. ........
“Minister Bryan Green and the Lennon Labor government
is on notice that if a tragedy occurs and a school
bus or Winnebago is taken out by an unstable log truck
then the people of Tasmania will hold them to account.”
“Minister Green may well be fronting up in the
coroners court before long to explain his lack of
action if he continues to fail in his duty to protect
lives. Let us hope he wakes up before it is too late.”
Mr Booth said.
TAS
GREENS...
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TASMANIA, THE PREMIER LOG TRUCK
STATE OF AUSTRALIA
Because of the culture of cover up of
Tasmanian forest practices, log truck accidents are
increasingly rarely reported and statistics are very
hard to get hold of. The word "accident"
is not used by the industry, code words or numbers
are used instead. Log trucks are notorious for tipping
over and drivers are pushed to the limit to meet industry
demands and oppression...... [and yes, they
lined up to kiss little Johnie's butt]
NEWS TASMANIA
JANUARY 2005...
• SEE
SOME OF THE PROBLEMS WITH DRIVING IN TASMANIA...
• SEE
SOME MORE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH DRIVING IN TASMANIA...
• TAS
GREENS... Truck Safety Blind Spot For Minister Green.
All Care And No Responsibility Attitude Continues
The Tasmanian Greens today further pursued Minister
Green over his inaction on addressing Heavy Vehicle
safety, questioning the minister, whether Coronial
inquiries into recent fatalities involving log trucks
rolling or tipping, would be informed of the findings
of independent engineer Wolfgang Wissman into the
likelihood of such events, and if not, why not? Greens
Opposition Infrastructure spokesperson Kim Booth MHA
also questioned the Minister as to whether Transport
Inspectors were attending the scene of all heavy vehicle
roll overs, or only those involving injuries or fatalities,
and further moved a motion calling on the Minister
to provide a copy Mr Wissman’s report into Heavy
Vehicle stability to all drivers, contractors and
industry stakeholders. “The
Minister, Bryan Green, refuses to provide to the parliament
answers to serious questions regarding heavy vehicle
safety, and nor will he address concerns that heavy
vehicle incidents have almost doubled from this time
last year,” Mr Booth said. “There are also
outstanding concerns over whether transport inspectors
are now only inspecting accidents scenes which involve
serious injury or fatalities rather than all accidents
involving heavy vehicles.”......
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AND Gunns to boost Tas woodchip
output
21 March 2005
Timber giant Gunns
Limited will increase its output of woodchips
by a million tonnes a year
in the next five years....
ABC
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Forest protests lift a rung or two
CONSERVATIONISTS used ladders to halt a log
truck in central Hobart yesterday in an otherwise
Princess Mary-themed forestry protest. Nine protesters ran
in front of the truck as it was moving slowly through the
intersection of Macquarie and Elizabeth Sts about midday.
They erected a protest banner before leaving at the request
of police. Another protester, dressed in an animal suit,
later made a show of delaying another log
truck that had stopped at a red light. It was
remeniscent of December, when a lone cyclist halted a log
truck at the intersection.........
HOBART
MERCURY... |
Burn-offs loom, concerns raised
10 March 2005
THE annual forest burn-off is about to start, turning the
Coast's normally clean air hazy. The forest industry conducts
burns every autumn to reduce the risk of bushfires and to
promote the regeneration of forests. Musician Philip Nicholas
originally moved to Wynyard for the region's clean air and
water but was turned off by the smokey autumns. He moved
to a bush retreat at Lower Mount Hicks 20 years ago. "The
very first autumn I was here, seeing the amount of wood
smoke passing overhead, something hit me straight away,"
he said yesterday. "Part of my concern comes from a
science background I studied some science at university
and my own feeling is that there must be better ways of
managing the forests. "But aside from my personal views,
I really think that the smoke's impact on Tasmania's tourism
industry must be quite severe. "People
must go home saying, why would we go back to Tasmania?"......
THE
ADVOCATE...
• SMOKE
& FIRE FROM DISCOVER TASMANIA... |
TRAC - Tamar Residents Action Committee
Providing unbiased information to the public on the proposed
establishment of a [Gunns
Ltd ] pulp mill in northern Tasmania. ........ It will
have a significant impact on the very social fabric of our
society with atmospheric emissions alone accounting for
300-kilograms of particulate material each day. There'll
be significant effluent emissions from a four kilometre
outfall pipe at five-mile bluff near george Town. The
effluent will include organochlorines which will contain
dioxins and furans, which bioaccumulate in the sediment.......
TRAC
WEBSITE... |
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| A POLITICICAL
PROFILE - Someone you know? |
Monsters in our midst, says author
Friday, 4 March 2005
They are callous, egotistic and destroy their victims,
but serial killers and rapists are not the only type
of psychopaths. In fact, you could be working with
one. Criminologist John Clarke, a consulting profiler
for NSW Police, said the
majority of psychopaths were not homicidal maniacs,
but worked and lived unchallenged in society.
He's written a book about his work as a consultant
to corporations who call on him to deal with workers
who create problems in their organisations because
they exhibit psychopathic traits. His book, Working
With Monsters, identifies
the psychological tendencies of the workplace psychopath.
Like their violent counterparts they are superficially
charming, have a grandiose sense of self-worth, a
need for excitement, and are pathological liars. "They
have an absolute lack of remorse, a lack of guilt
for what they do," Mr Clarke said. "It's
a parasitic lifestyle, they live off other people,
take credit for other people's work, ... have a sense
of entitlement, are very narcissistic and often exhibit
promiscuous sexual behaviour."
THE
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PULP FRICTION SILENCES CRITICS
Julie Macken with AAP - 2 March 2005
The controversy over the role of chemicals in Tasmania's
timber industry has provoked an aggressive response, writes
Julie Macken. Life in Tasmania's timber industry looks
so bright investors have to wear shades. The state's biggest
company, Gunns, has just announced a record half-year profit
of $38.7 million and selected the site for its $1 billion
pulp mill. What's more, Gunns hasn't had to worry about
any pesky critics thanks to an Australian first using writs
against critics who have raised concerns about the chemicals
the company uses. Doctors say Gunns' tactic not only endangers
their capacity to speak out in this case, but also threatens
to stymie debate on a range of public health issues. While
not wanting to speak directly about the current court action
against Hobart physician Frank Nicklason and others, the
Australian Medical Association's federal president, Bill
Glasson, says: "Our Hippocratic oath demands we investigate
any possible cause of disease, whatever that may be tobacco,
asbestos or any other concerns. ........ And when the Nicklason
case is heard in the Supreme Court in Victoria some time
this year, there's likely to be evidence showing how industrial-scale
clear-fell logging in Tasmania depends on the use of a host
of chemicals particularly the triazine family including
atrazine and simazine to hinder undergrowth. The World Health
Organisation has classified these chemicals as 2B possibly
carcinogenic. The US Environmental Protection Agency has
recently classified them in the category of "endocrine
disruptor" chemicals that can affect the hormone system........
AUSTRALIAN
FINANCIAL REVIEW - Pulp friction silences critics /
Cost - $3.30 - 1621
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POLITICAL COMPETENCE
- TASSIE STYLE
Ken Bacon
[ex LOG TRUCK DRIVER
& Minister
for Tourism], "If
I look after TOURISM the way I looked after LOG TRUCK
DRIVERS then Tasmania is going to be a long way ahead
of the rest of the states,"
THE
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TT-Line predicts $52m loss
1 March 2005
The troubled Sydney to Devonport ferry service has
been blamed for TT-Line's expected losses of up to
$52 million over the next two years. ......... Tourism
Minister Ken Bacon surprised
many at the hearing when he revealed he had not even
seen Treasury reports on the TT-Line that were ordered
three months ago. "I haven't got across
all the figures yet," he said.......
ABC
NEWS ONLINE...
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Halls of invective: Hearing both bad
and ugly but not good
By ELLEN WHINNETT - 2 March 2005
A FLOUNDERING minister, a belligerent bureaucrat and
a sharp-tongued chairman of the board combined to
put on an entertaining performance yesterday as the
TT-Line's finances went under Parliamentary scrutiny.
Tourism Minister Ken Bacon
struggled to stay afloat as he ducked questions about
whether Spirit III would be sold or retained. Fresh
from a two-week trip overseas, Mr
Bacon repeatedly told the committee he did not have
the figures they were after and could not have had
them faxed to him because they were "sensitive".
Perhaps he'd never heard of email.......
HOBART
MERCURY...
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Sydney ferry sails $25m into
red
By ELLEN WHINNETT - 2 March 2005
THE embattled Sydney-Devonport ferry will lose $25
million this year. And the twin ferries crossing Bass
Strait between Melbourne and Devonport will lose a
further $10 million -- a reversal of their $7 million
profit the previous year. The bleak figures and $35
million projected loss were laid out yesterday as
government ferry operator TT-Line faced scrutiny in
a parliamentary committee in Hobart. The fiery three-hour
hearing saw Tourism Minister Ken
Bacon fumbling for answers as he admitted he had not
seen a treasury report into the future of the Spirit
III Sydney ferry.......
HOBART
MERCURY...
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Tassie ferries could sink Ken Bacon
2 March 2005
Tasmanian minister for tourism, Ken Bacon, has done
it again. Known for looking and acting vacant most
of the time, it is widely held that he only got his
promotion to the ministry by being last man standing
when premier Jim Bacon (no relation) and treasurer
David Crean both retired last year. With only 13 in
the lower house (after providing the speaker) to choose
a nine person ministry from, new premier Paul Lennon
closed his eyes, said a prayer and went for Bacon
ahead of the even worse Brenton Best and three newbies.
Ken Bacon rarely makes news but when he does it is
usually for not really knowing what is going on around
him. ........ Given that the ferry performance has
dominated the news in Tassie for months, one would
expect that the minister would come well briefed and
prepared for the GBE estimates hearing held in Hobart
yesterday. Not Kenny. He hadn’t even read a Treasury
report on the Sydney ferry’s future presented
to the government three weeks ago. He could scarcely
answer a question on the TT Line, not even provide
a personal view. He may as well have not turned up.........
CRIKEY...
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Gunns 20 Website Launches
This is a website with information on one of the biggest
lawsuits ever launched in Australia by a rich industrial
company against ordinary citizens, groups and political
representatives who care about our environmental heritage.
Many people say they now feel frightened about speaking
out against the actions of industries that could damage
our environment, economy and social fabric......
GUNNS20.ORG... |
Tasmania's saw point
Matthew Denholm - February 25, 2005
A TEAM of bureaucrats has spent months trying to draw agreed
boundaries on a series of maps that will determine the future
of vast tracts of Tasmania's unprotected, ancient native
forests. The maps are being drawn up by a group of forestry
advisers from the federal and Tasmanian governments and
will show exactly how John Howard will keep his election
pledge to save 170,000ha of old-growth forests. The detail
will reveal whether the policy was a political sleight of
hand with little conservation value - as claimed by Labor
and conservationists - or a plan that will strike a balance
between saving trees and jobs .......... Back at the Styx
protest camp, protesters are preparing to put their bodies
in the way of logging equipment. "Jai", who won't
give his real name but whose Centrelink card states "client
lives in rainforest", is an industrial abseiler whose
experience abseiling dams and tall buildings will come in
handy for rigging protest platforms in the trees. They are
also potentially putting their future livelihoods on the
line, as demonstrated by the legal action for damages launched
recently by Gunns
Ltd against 20 anti-logging campaigners.
THE
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