| FORESTS VANDAL,
ELECTION LIAR & WOODCHIP BARON TO CONDUCT ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACT STUDY |
Pulp mill move has Gunns shares
firing
By Philip Hopkins - October 29, 2004
Shares in Gunns
shot to a 12-month intraday high of $15.94 yesterday
after the timber giant said it would conduct an environmental
impact study into building a pulp mill in Tasmania.
The share price eased slightly, but finished 22 ¢
higher at $15.90 as more than 225,000 shares changed
hands. The value of trading was more than $3.5 million......
MELBOURNE
AGE...
Woodchip exports still at near-record
levels
By NICK CLARK - October 30, 2004
WOODCHIP exports have exceeded five million tonnes
for the second year in a row, figures from Tasmanian
ports' reports reveal. ...... At the request of Gunns
Limited, woodchip export figures are not disclosed
by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.......
NEWS.COM.AU...
• THE
BOOK OF GAYGUN |
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| FORESTS VANDAL,
ELECTION LIAR & WOODCHIP BARON TO ENTER TASMANIAN
TOURISM & HERITAGE |
Gunns `best' for Entally
By MICHAEL LOWE , Sunday, 17 October 2004
Entally
House would become a showcase for using commercial
sponsorship to preserve historic buildings, Heritage
Minister Ken Bacon predicted yesterday. ....... Gunns
has been confirmed as the best of seven expressions
of interest in taking over the lease from the National
Trust to run the house and 37ha estate. The timber
company plans to spend $500,000 over five years on
restoring the house in return for permission to run
a commercial venture, possibly a wine centre. Mr Bacon
said Tasmania had about a third of Australia's surviving
historic buildings but only a small tax base. "For
a small State like us, it is nearly impossible to
find the dollars (to spend) in the manner they need
to be maintained," he said......
THE
LAUNCESTON EXAMINER...
• GUNNS
ELECTION LIES...
Another grubby Gunns deal
By Gretel Green @ Crikey
The ability of giant Tassie tree-slaughterer Gunns
to pull off sweetheart deals continues apace as they've
even got the Tassie National Trust under their spell,
as Gretel Green explains.....
CRIKEY...
AND MORE FROM CRIKEY....
• GUNNS,
PROFITS, MATES and the NATIONAL TRUST & GUESS
WHO'S THE BEST MAN |
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| AND TASMANIA'S
POISONED WATER DISGRACE CONTINUES |
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Calls for Tasmanian pesticide probe
By Claire Miller - October 17, 2004
A group of doctors and concerned oyster farmers
in Tasmania is seeking a federal investigation into
aerial spraying of timber plantations amid claims
of damage to human and environmental health. The
request follows a mysterious mass oyster death in
Georges Bay, in north-east Tasmania, in January,
and a cluster of unusual neurological and other
illnesses among residents in the small town of St
Helens. Oyster farmers, a local doctor and others
have pointed the finger at pesticides sprayed over
plantations in the water catchment to control weeds
and insects. ....... Michael Aizen, president of
the Australian Medical Association's Tasmania branch,
said the department's record-keeping was poor, and
it was difficult to obtain information on the chemical
use. Forestry
Tasmania is exempt from freedom of information
laws, while the timber company Gunns does not make
its test results public. Gunns
controls 70 per cent of sawlogging, exports 95 per
cent of the woodchips, and is engaged in the mass
conversion of native forests to plantations. "My
concern is public health," said Dr Aizen. "If
oysters are affected, then humans could be at risk
as well. We feel the procedure for assessing the
risk to public health needs to smarten up."
Dr Marcus Scammell, a marine ecologist with the
Sydney Water Corporation, investigated the oyster
deaths for the shellfish farmers and raised the
alarm about heavy pesticide use.......
MELBOURNE
AGE...
===============
Doubt over trout tests
By SIMON BEVILACQUA - October 17, 2004
A LEADING American scientist has slammed a report
into cancer-causing chemicals in Tasmanian trout
and eels. The Tasmanian Government report failed
to find consistently high levels of a range of toxic
man-made chemicals in trout and eels. But New York
researcher David Carpenter says the Tasmanian report
into trout and eels was designed to fail........
SUNDAY
TASMANIAN...
===============
Mystery killer concern over mass oyster loss
By LUKE SAYER - October 27, 2004
A BIG oyster kill at Smithton has sparked fears
that an unknown source of pollution could devastate
the industry......
NEWS.COM.AU...
• MUCH MORE BELOW ON TASMANIA'S
POISONED DRINKING WATER...
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| A TYPICAL (OF
MANY) DISCOVER TASMANIA FEEDBACK COMMENT |
From Jen - 17 October 2004
While looking for Tassie Forest Sites to pass on to
a travelling overseas friend....he wanted info all
about tassie, as he plans to visit there soon......After
having trouble finding websites on the real Tasmania
(none of this happy families/coverup shit), I somehow
stumbled upon this very site! A big congratulations
is in order.....Thank you
for exposing the real Tassie, Here On the
Gold Coast, everyone is so ignorant as to what really
goes on, despite my efforts to re-educate them! I
was born and lived in Tassie for the first 15 years
of my life, The forestry industry was all we were
brought up to know.....at the time, we think its big
and great and wonderful for our state, but it's not
until you leave, that you realise what actually is
real, and what are lies! God Bless Your site, and
might i say, i' will be reccomending this one to everyone
i know! Thank you! |
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| THE THUG GETS
INVITED TO BE SHOWN HOW IT'S DONE |
Gallop extends old-growth invite
to Lennon
17 October 2004
Western Australian Premier Geoff Gallop has invited
his Tasmanian counterpart, Paul Lennon, to visit the
state to find out how his Government achieved an end
to old-growth logging. The offer was made after the
Victorian Labor Premier, Steve Bracks, criticised
Mr Lennon on the ABC's Lateline program. Mr Bracks
said the Tasmanian Premier should have welcomed Federal
Opposition Leader Mark Latham's pre-election move
to provide the state with $800 million to bring about
the end of old-growth logging. It prompted Mr Gallop
to invite Mr Lennon to Western Australia to see how
it was done there. "If Paul came over here to
Western Australia we could describe to him how we
bought about this historic change of policy,"
he said. "We've saved the old-growth forests,
we've created new jobs for people, we've looked after
people who were affected by the changes. "We've
got to look to the future and the only future for
Australia in respect to our growth forests is to conserve
them so that future generations can enjoy them."
A spokesman for Mr Lennon says the Tasmanian Government
did not believe the federal Labor package offered
sustainable jobs for forest workers.
ABC
ONLINE NEWS... |
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| A LETTER TO
THE AGE |
Tassie lambs cuddle up to wolf in
sheep's clothing
17 October 2004
....Even the blind can see there is no logic in perpetuating
an industry that relies on the availability of trees
that take 100 years or more to grow but only days
to chop down and send off on a boat to Japan. .......
Tasmania will be like Nauru: just as that island's
prosperity could not be sustained after its deposits
of natural phosphate were exhausted, so too, ultimately,
will Tasmania's future prospects vanish as the (commercial)
old-growth forests inevitably disappear. The timber
workers of today have protected their jobs by selling
out the future employability of their children and
grandchildren......
MELBOURNE
AGE... |
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Brown blasts Labor pair
October 11, 2004
GREENS senator Bob Brown sprayed insults at Tasmanian Labor
Party figures today, calling maverick MP Dick Adams the
new Mal Colston and compared Premier Paul Lennon to Governor
William Bligh. Those key Tasmanian figures had pulled the
rug out from under federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham
over his $800-million forestry restructure package, Senator
Brown said. "The package was right but some sections
of Labor helped set up the prime minister to win while offering
Tasmania a quarter of a billion dollars less money. Quite
extraordinary," he said. "The CFMEU in Tasmania
simply sold out on workers' interests right across the country,
and so did some elements of the Labor Party, including the
new Mal Colston. "That's Dick Adams, who made it clear
that if he got into the balance of power he would sell the
party out in his own interests.".......
THE
AUSTRALIAN...
• "DEAR
DICK ADAMS" FROM A TASMANIAN
TIMES CONTRIBUTOR
• "I
DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR OPINION", from Dick Adams
earlier this year
===============
Battle over forests policy steps up
By Misha Schubert - October 12, 2004
The bloodletting over Labor's forests policy intensified
yesterday, as Tasmanian MP Dick Adams was branded "Labor's
new Mal Colston" over his strident criticism of the
plan. And Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon was accused of "(hiding)
under his bed for the last three days" of the campaign
and of having "blood on his hands" over the loss
of Braddon and Bass. ....... Labor figures are considering
bringing disciplinary action against Mr Adams, after he
appeared on Sydney talkback radio bagging Labor's policy.
"At a senior level, Dick Adams is a very, very unpopular
figure," one said. "People are ropeable that he
did national media - and some are saying he should be turfed.".....
MELBOURNE
AGE...
===============
• AND ANOTHER
OF THE RODENT TRICKS DISCOVERED |
| CIVIL WAR IN
TASMANIA |
Kerr defends forest plan
By DANNY ROSE, Sunday 10 October 20t04
MARK Latham got it right on forestry in Tasmania,
said Denison MHR Duncan Kerr as he re-claimed his
safe Labor seat encompassing metropolitan Hobart last
night. Mr Kerr said Federal
Labor's controversial $800 million plan had offered
a solution to a "civil war" in Tasmania
over old-growth clear-felling. ..... "I
think Mark's policy on forests is right, we can't
allow this civil war in Tasmania to go on,"
Mr Kerr said last night. "The
idea that a Clayton's reservation agenda put forward
by [John] Howard can in any way work is wrong.
"Those opposed to clear-fell
logging are not going to pack up their tent and walk
away. "It is a recipe for continued
tension in Tasmania."..........
SUNDAY
TASMANIAN...
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Lennon blamed over lost seats
By MARIA RAE , Sunday, 10 October 2004
Labor incumbent Harry Quick
has laid the blame of losing two Northern seats at
the feet of Premier Paul Lennon. Although
Mr Quick comfortably retained his seat, there was
a slight swing to the Liberal Party in his division.
Mr Quick said Mr Lennon's silence on the Howard Government's
forestry policy had sent out the message that the
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's
Tasmanian branch and the timber industry were justified
in calling for a backlash against the five Labor incumbents.
"I'm just disappointed the CFMEU were blinded
by the rhetoric of Howard and the bluster of the timber
industry," Mr Quick said. "I also lay the
blame on the Premier, who's been laying low for a
week and he's let the five of us down. I lay the blame
fairly and squarely on his doorstep."........
LAUNCESTON
EXAMINER...
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Quick attacks 'dirty' tactics
By DANNY ROSE, Sunday 10 October 20t04
.......Mr Quick said the attacks, including full-page
newspaper advertisements and a personal insult, continued
up to polling day yesterday. He said his staff handing
out how-to-vote cards faced obscenities from forest
industry supporters. "Considering all the venom
and angst from the timber communities, the John Gays
and the Terry Edwards ... and the fact that the Premier
has been in hiding and the Mayor of the Huon accused
me of licking Bob Brown's backside, then a swing of
2 per cent is remarkable," Mr Quick said. "It
shows them that they should be talking to us before
they mouth-off publicly and behave despicably."
Mr Quick also said Labor staffers attached to the
State Government had refused to provide any assistance
to his campaign, which he attributed to his outspokenness
on former governor Richard Butler earlier this year........
SUNDAY
TASMANIAN...
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Lennon slammed over losses
LABOR had been hung out to dry in Tasmania by Premier
Paul Lennon's failure to back the party's forest policy,
federal Labor MP Harry Quick said today. ....... Franklin
MP Mr Quick said Mr Lennon and his government should
have supported Labor's forest policy, which was roundly
condemned by the state's powerful forestry industry
and unions. "By his conspicuous absence, we were
left to hang out to dry," Mr Quick said. "We
never saw him. He went into hiding and any forestry
comment was done by (Resources Minister) Bryan Green.
"It leaves a bad taste in your mouth when you
are all supposed to be part of the same group."......
HERALD
SUN... |
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| FROM
THE DISHONEST & TRICKY LIBERAL SERIAL LIAR, WARMONGER
AND PERSON WHO LOCKS UP INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN
(you know who is being referred to don't
you)... MORE OF THE SAME VANDALISM
FOR TASMANIA |
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•
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THE FIRST TRICK
- withholding the Liberal Forest Policy until
the last minute to Conceal the Con before the
election. |
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THE SECOND TRICK
- withholding the Liberal Forest Policy until
around 5pm allowed the forest vandals to get
boozed up, courtesy of Gunns Ltd. |
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| THE
THIRD TRICK - up to 170,000 hectares of
land never under threat from logging or
not wanted by the logging industry, or
already reserved, to be reserved, e.g.,
stream slopes, steep slopes & mountain
tops. |
• .....Labor
forests spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon said
Mr Howard's policy was dishonest because
at least 140,000ha of the forests he claimed
to be saving "already can't be logged
under existing forest management"...
THE
AUSTRALIAN...
• .....But which 170,000 hectares?
SMH...
• PM's forestry policy 'a con job'...
THE
AUSTRALIAN...
• ......The Forestry Union's National
Secretary, John Maitland, says he was
disgusted when he saw loggers in Tasmania
cheering the prime minister. "What
John Howard is doing is a con job. This
guy has had no commitment to workers,"
he said.... ABC
NEWS...
• ......A Tasmanian Government Minister
has joined a senior official of the CFMEU
in admitting that most of the forests
to be 'saved' by John Howard were never
threatened and likened Mr Howard's stance
to the children overboard affair......
THE
WILDERNESS SOCIETY...
• ......State Resources Minister
Bryan Green yesterday likened Prime Minister
John Howard's forestry policy to the "children
overboard affair" that dominated
the 2001 federal election campaign. Mr
Green said the majority of areas included
in the Prime Minister's 170,000ha of forest
due for protection were already protected
under various other laws..... THE
LAUNCESTON EXAMINER... |
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MORE
- 24 hour Clearfelling of Old Growth, yes...
they currently log under floodlight. |
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•
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| MORE
- Clearfelling the National Rainforest
Treasures & Giants of The Tarkine,
Styx and Blue Tier. |
• ...."Not
one additional hectare of old-growth forests
will be protected as a result of John
Howard's policy," he said.... ABC
NEWS...
• Trees on Latham walk 'to be felled'
THE
ADVERTISER...
• Experts slam Coalition tree plan
...... Backed by 100 environmental scientists
and scholars, Professor Tony Norton has
been consistently calling for federal
intervention to protect all of the island
state's high-conservation forests. "The
Labor Party, at the moment, is offering
a process which, with goodwill, could
mean there is a serious possibility of
ensuring most, if not all, of these forests
are protected," he said today. "That
would be a terrific outcome. "In
contrast, unfortunately, the policy announced
by the Prime Minister yesterday really
fails on any of the tests we put forward......
HERALD
SUN...
• .....A month ago a group of over
one hundred environmental experts called
on John Howard to protect Tasmania's high
conservation forests. Today that group
has issued a media release, condemning
the Prime Minister's policy saying it
guarantees the destruction of unique forest
eco-systems....... THE
WORLD TODAY... |
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| MORE
- Woodchips, Woodchip Culture, Job Loss
& Job Export. |
• .....John Maitland,
national secretary of the CFMEU, said
Mr Howard had no commitment to workers
and his plan was simply opportunism. He
was joined this morning by leaders of
the electrical and plumbing unions who
pointedly said the CFMEU forestry division
did not speak for them. ..... "Prime
Minister Howard and the forestry union
leadership say they are fighting to protect
jobs. What a laugh," the group said
in their joint statement..... THE
AUSTRALIAN...
• Howard Jobs Con ACTU
NEWS... |
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MORE - 1080 Poison
and Animal Cruelty. |
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•
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MORE
- Poisoned Drinking Water and Degradation, from
MORE Land Grab Plantations. |
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•
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MORE - Corruption,
Criminal Negligence, Bullying, Cronyism, Thuggery,
Secrecy & Lies. |
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•
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MORE
- Log Trucks and Log Truck Road Accidents Kept
Secret. |
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| MORE
- Division in the Australian Community
& Websites like the one you are looking
at and the one on the right. |
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MORE
- Dissatisfaction of Australian Business &
Community. |
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MORE - Tarnishing
of the Australian Brand. |
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•
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NO
- $800 million Labor Restructure of the Forest
Industry. |
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•
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NO - Benefits
to Tourism. |
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•
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IN
SHORT - More of this from Liberal Rednecks:- |
DO YOU THINK LABOR PREMIER LENNON IS GOING
TO VOTE LIBERAL?
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| COWBOY ELEMENT
BLUDGING ON FORESTS AND AUSTRALIAN TAXPAYERS |
Pork barrelling Tasmania - Crikey
opinion on ABC radio
Wednesday 5th October 2004
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Labor promised to spend
$800 million to stop logging in Tasmania's
conservation areas after a scientific review
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It was a brave but foolish Crikey who started his
regular Tuesday spot wth ABC Tasmania's Tim Cox this
morning with a spray about subsidised Tasmanians and
the cowboys in the logging industry. Why
the hell do these bludgers in Tasmania, who only comprise
2 per cent of the national population, deserve an
additional $800 million subsidy from the Federal government
just to stop their world record tree slaughtering.
Why isn't someone hitting those cowboys at Gunns
to contribute to a reduction in old growth logging.
Afterall, the Gunns
share price has surged from $1.50 to $14 over the
past 5 years and it is now a $1.2 billion colossus
which has enormous power in Tasmania and exercises
it brutally through unions, employer groups, advertising,
media connections and political donations. No stock
in the top 100 has performed better over that period
and the company will have revenues of about $600 million
as it continues its reckless chainsaw massacre through
what should be one of the great clean and green tourism
meccas in the world. If Mark Latham and Paul Lennon
are so worried about timber jobs why didn't they get
stuck into Gunns
for shedding hundreds of workers after buying the
Boral and North Forest Products business to create
their effective monopoly over the Tassie timber industry.....
THE
CRIKEY WEBSITE
===============
Tasmania has a big voice for a tiny
population
October 6, 2004
.....So the federal Labor Party has finally announced
its policy on Tasmania's old-growth forests, effectively
promising to end logging and compensate for job losses.
And some Tasmanians are howling, in particular timber
workers and ALP members worried about their seats.
Dick Adams, the federal ALP member for Lyons, for
example, complains that Mark Latham is selling out
Tasmania on behalf of "a few city dwellers".
Presumably he means the overwhelming majority of Australians
who, opinion polls show, are opposed to woodchipping
of old-growth forests. Again, just like with Lake
Pedder and with the Franklin dam, the Tasmanian Government
and ALP are out of step with the opinion of the mainland.
And again, they are being uncompromising, appealing
to their state's rights, and expressing a sense of
grievance that the mainlanders dare to interfere in
their affairs.
The plight of a few endangered
Tasmanian timber workers, their families and communities
is being given consideration that was never extended
to the women who worked in the clothing, textile and
footwear factories, to the steel workers in Newcastle,
to many of the other workers whose jobs disappeared
when the tariffs were reduced on Australian manufacturing.
...... I think it's time
a few mild threats were directed Tasmania's way to
make it a little more reasonable in its consideration
of the environmental concerns of the majority of Australians.......
THE
MELBOURNE AGE... |
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WORKERS WELCOME LATHAM [Labor] FOREST
PACKAGE
Wednesday 5th October 2004
Timber
Workers for Forests (TWFF), a group representing
approximately 650 specialty timber workers, welcome
Mark Latham's forest package for Tasmania. Spokesman
for the group Graham Green said "We are very
pleased that Mark Latham's package has promised surety
of specialty timber supply to sustain high value-added
uses under a selective harvest system. Our sector
is labour intensive and has been directly threatened
by industrial forestry which has decimated 50,000
hectares of our resource base since the RFA was signed.
We rely on the use of timbers up to 800 years old
for our businesses. These timbers are not being replaced
under current management. Without federal intervention
our supply of quality timbers would have dried up
within 10 years thanks to the wodchippers", Mr
Green said. "Mark Latham's package is a big breakthrough.
We believe it provides a win-win scenario that appeases
conservationists and ensures that high value uses
are no longer compromised by clearfelling and conversion
to plantations", Mr Green said. "With a
reduction in the area of production forest available
under Labor's package, the incentive will be increased
for maximising processing of Tasmanian timbers within
the State and using our available timber more wisely
- this can only be a positive thing", Mr Green
said.
WORKERS WELCOME
LATHAM FOREST PACKAGE / MEDIA RELEASE - PDF
===============
Craftsman's plea on wood
October 6, 2004
ANY decision to stop clearfelling in old growth forests
is welcomed by furniture maker Stuart Williams. Sitting
on one of his blackwood stools at the new Henry James
Art Hotel in Hobart, Mr Williams said he had seen
enough waste in clear-felled coupes in state forests
to know something needed to change. He welcomed any
investigation into the sustainability of logging practices
in old-growth forest still available to logging. The
old-growth hardwood and specialty timber species were
being wasted because clear-felling was going at a
faster rate than Forestry Tasmania could find a market
for the product, he said. Three times a year, Mr Williams
and two associates get a permit to salvage timber
in clear-felled coupes which would otherwise be burnt.
The last time they went in, they salvaged 15 tonnes
of celery-top pine. It took them two weeks and they
sold it to a New South Wales buyer for $16,000. He
said: "When we go in to get our permits, they
tell us there is no market for it......
NEWS.COM.AU...
===============
Miller fights for a fair go
October 6, 2004
TASMANIAN old-growth forests are being cleared too
quickly, says a sawmiller who has been in business
since 1967.....
NEWS.COM.AU...
===============
Lobby groups back Labor
October 5, 2004
TWO key environment lobby groups today backed Labor's
Tasmanian forest plan and rejected suggestions it
would cost the party seats. The
Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the
Wilderness
Society said they were concerned at the timber
industry's over-reaction to the Labor plan. ACF director
Don Henry said the Opposition's $800-million
package was very generous and provided
a unique opportunity for Tasmania to save its old
growth high-conservation value forests while stimulating
job growth. ........ "The
voices of opposition that we are hearing at the moment
are actually voices driven more by woodchip profits
than they are by the interests of the Tasmanian community,"
she said. "$800 million would go a very long
way towards bringing about all the change that we
need in this industry. The changes needed are not
just about protecting old growth forests or ending
one of the highest rates of land clearing in the world......
NEWS.COM.AU...
===============
A solution, but Labor may still have
work cut out
By Matt Wade - October 5, 2004
Labor will test whether money can save the Tasmanian
wilderness. The $800 million forest fix is more than
three times what a recent report by green groups said
would be necessary to shift the Tasmanian forest industry
away from logging native forests to plantation forests
and switching some workers to tourism jobs. The Protecting
forests, growing jobs report, funded by a consortium
of environment groups, said $250 million would cover
the cost. The Tasmanian forest industry employs between
8000 and 10,000 workers directly or indirectly, meaning
Labor has set aside $80,000-$100,000 a head.
That is a lot more than workers in many other fading
industries have had thrown their way. Tasmanian loggers
will always be under political pressure while native
forests are being destroyed. The soaring national
Green vote - 12 per cent in the Senate, according
to the Herald Poll published yesterday - demonstrates
this. A move away from native forests seems to be
the only option for the future......
SYDNEY
MORNING HERALD...
===============
Brown hails Labor for `breakthrough'
By DANNY ROSE - October 5, 2004
LABOR had delivered a "breakthrough for Tasmania's
forests", Greens leader Bob Brown declared yesterday.
The Tasmanian senator said federal Labor leader Mark
Latham had set the pace on resolving the state's bitter
forestry debate, and his political rival John Howard
must follow. Senator Brown said Labor's $800 million
Tasmanian forest package was what he had hoped for,
following his orchestrated tour with Mr Latham through
old-growth logging coupes in Tasmania's Styx Valley
earlier this year.....
NEWS.COM.AU...
===============
Greens Forests Transition Strategy
A Forest Transition Strategy to Protect Forests and
Create Sustainable Jobs The need to resolve Tasmania’s
forests debate in favour of both forest protection
and sustainable jobs has led the Greens to critically
examine the forest industry and develop an outline
for a process of transformation to alter the dynamics
of the industry. The purpose of this document is to
set out the Greens’ vision for a way forward
which resolves Tasmania’s ongoing divisive forest
debate by providing positive social, environmental
and economic outcomes.
GREENS
FORESTS TRANSITION STRATEGY... |
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| GEMS
@ THE TASMANIAN PARLIAMENTARY GUTTER |
29/09/04....
LABOR PREMIER PAUL LENNON TO THE PRESS
GALLERY - "you report adversely on
my government especially in the area of
forestry and I will use privilege to besmirch
your reputation."
30/09/04....
"RENE HIDDING [leader of the Liberal
opposition] has us gobsmacked by claiming
he wants more cosiness with Gunns
Ltd and would love to go to dinner
with John Gay every night.”
TASMANIAN
GREENS MEDIA CENTRE...
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|
ACCC
COMPLAINT : against Gunns Ltd (Gunns)
and Bryan Hayes
made 29th September 2004
....."I assert that the advertisement is
published in trade and commerce by virtue that
its purpose is to protect the commercial interests
of Gunns
Ltd.......
.....I refer to section 52 of the TPA regarding
misleading or deceptive conduct.
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/115/0/PA002180.htm
I also refer to section 51A of the TPA regarding
representations as to future matters which are
taken to be misleading unless supported by reasonable
grounds and unless the corporation adduces evidence
to the contrary, the corporation is deemed not
to have had reasonable grounds for making the
representation.
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/115/0/PA002170.htm
I allege that the following representations
in the advertisement by the Gunns
Ltd corporation engaging in trade and commerce,
is in the exercise of particular knowledge and
certain expertise, to a target audience understanding
the representations to be assertions of fact
based on, that knowledge and expertise:-".......
FULL
COMPLAINT HERE...
Join the queue to make your
ACCC complaint
ACCC
COMPLAINT FORM HERE...
or Ph: (03) 6215 9333 / Fax: (03) 6234 7796
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THE CHEMICAL
BOY'S CLUB
Briefing Note - Tasmanian Premier and Minister
for Forests
How the Tasmanian Government, Forestry
Tasmania & North Forest Products (since
purchased by Gunns)
colluded in assisting Ciba-Geigy
to keep the carcinogen Atrazine on the shelves
in Tasmania, when in the USA, the EPA was under
pressure to review Atrazine.
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CONDUCT BY A TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT DRIVEN BY
CORRUPTION, CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.... OR BRAIN
DAMAGE FROM THE WATER |
Tasmania:
name your poison
Sunday 26 September 2004
SUNDAY
- CHANNEL NINE TV
• TRANSCRIPT
OF THE EXPOSURE OF DISGUSTING & CRIMINAL
POLITICAL CONDUCT IN TASMANIA
Video copies of the program should be available
for sale at TV Archives in Sydney - 02 9906
9999 / international +61 2 9906 9999
• PREVIOUS REPORT
by Sunday Feb 2003, TASMANIAN
FIRE SALE |
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The poisoning
of Tasmania / Tasmania: name your poison
SUNDAY - CHANNEL 9, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION
Reporter : Graham Davis / Producer : Nick Rushworth
/ Executive producer : John Lyons
Sunday penetrates a
veil of secrecy in Tasmania to investigate the
use of chemicals in the forestry industry and
their effect on human health. In
a story that's prompted an angry response from
Labor Premier Paul Lennon even before it goes
to air, we talk to
some of the scores of people who've contracted
mystery illnesses downstream from forestry activity.
What is making them sick? Some experts
are pointing the finger at pesticides and herbicides
used in forestry, some of which have been linked
to cancer. How widespread is the use of these
chemicals? Incredibly, no information is available
and the forestry industry is not obliged to
divulge it, having been exempted from Freedom
of Information legislation. Sunday's enquiries
stem from a helicopter crash last December that
resulted in a chemical spill near a water source
for the north-eastern coastal resort of St Helens.
A month later, the biggest flood in living memory
swamped the Georges River leading through St
Helens to the sea. That produced a massive oyster
kill on leases in Georges Bay, destroying a
crop worth nearly two million dollars. Were
those oysters "canaries in the coal mine"
pointing to a wider risk to human health? ..........
We reveal that the "chemical load"
on St Helens is far greater than at first thought.
And that chemical exposure is a state-wide problem,
with poisons linked to cancer present in a number
of town water supplies. The response from the
Tasmanian Government and the forestry industry
is to deny any problem and accuse the critics
of a "beat-up". Premier
Paul Lennon has written to Sunday saying none
of his ministers are prepared to be interviewed
by reporter Graham Davis. ........
The forestry industry
too is refusing interviews. But in
another clear sign of intense sensitivity to
our story two weeks out from the federal election,
a spokesperson for the Tasmanian forestry giant,
Gunns,
said any link made
between the use of chemicals in the industry
and human or animal health would result in LEGAL
ACTION. Sunday's report will dramatically
increase pressure on an industry already beleaguered
over the destruction of old growth forests.
For this is no longer
just an issue of saving trees but of saving
people.
FROM
TASMANIAN TIMES... @ TASMANIAN
TIMES
• TRANSCRIPT
OF THE EXPOSURE OF DISGUSTING & CRIMINAL
POLITICAL CONDUCT IN TASMANIA
Video copies of the program should be available
for sale at TV Archives in Sydney - 02 9906
9999 / international +61 2 9906 9999 |
Toxin tests under
wraps
By SIMON BEVILACQUA 26 September 2004
THE State Government
is withholding results of a testing program
for highly toxic chemicals in Tasmanian trout
and eels. Trout and eels statewide
were tested for man-made PCB chemicals which
have been shown to harm humans and animals.
PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) were detected
in local fish but attempts by the Sunday Tasmanian
to have the results released last week were
refused by the Tasmanian Government. The
Government has been sitting on the preliminary
results of the testing program for more than
three years.......
SUNDAY
TASMANIAN...
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• TASMANIA'S "CLEAN
GREEN IMAGE" HAS A LONG HISTORY
HERE...
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• SUPER ARROGANT
KONS DENIES TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD ACT
ON POISONED WATER
MORE
ON TASMANIA'S POISONED WATER WITH ARROGANCE...
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• THERE'S POISON IN
YOUR DRINKING WATER, BUT HEY..... IT WON'T HARM
YOU!
HERE... |
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Chemical
spray 'ruined' sea-change dream
30/09/04
MICHELLE and Howard Carpenter moved to Tasmania 18
months ago to pursue a "clean, green" dream
of an organic hobby farm and healthy lifestyle. Today,
their dreams - and their health - are in tatters.
Instead they have become national symbols of what
some say is the "dirty" reality of forest
industry practices..... legal advice on action against
Gunns....
And more from Chemical Kons.
THE
AUSTRALIAN...
Senator slams aerial spraying
29/09/04
"I think it's a disgrace what's been allowed
to go on and I have continued to say that," he
told ABC Radio.... it was
unfair for Tasmanians to "live in fear of what
they are drinking"....
NEWS.COM.AU...
Business chiefs warn against 'commercial
insanity'
29/09/04
Several of Australia's business leaders today united
in a call for the major parties to protect Tasmania's
old-growth forests.... They include Flight Centre,
Fantastic Furniture, Australian Geographic, Spotlight,
Thrifty, the Body Shop, Nudie Foods, Video-Ezy, Jurlique
and Mediacom.....
SMH...
Gunns' spraying 'contaminated' drinking
water
28/09/04
Ms Putt asked Premier Paul Lennon .... "Are you
further aware that when the representative of Gunns
Limited was informed, his response yesterday was to
drive around to Mr and Mrs Carpenter's house and give
them two bottles of spring water and say he would
be back in touch today?"......
ABC
NEWS ONLINE...
Couple 'knocked for six' by
chemical
....lured by the State's "clean, green"
reputation.
HERALD
SUN...
Devout call to abandon logging of
old-growth
28/09/04
THE Tasmanian and Victorian Synod of the Uniting Church
has backed conservationists and called for an end
to clearfelling of old growth forests....
MERCURY...
Church takes stand on forestry
THE
AUSTRALIAN...
Don't let the good life cost the Earth
28/09/04
Our demands on the environment have a greater impact
than draining rivers and destroying forests - it's
a fight for survival, writes Stephanie Peatling....
SMH...
A hostile environment
27/09/04
Brown's forthright behaviour had tapped into traditional
Aussie values of integrity, irreverence and humour
that cut across all political divides....
UK
GUARDIAN...
Greens demand inquiry into forests
26/09/04 - 3:34PM
The Australian Greens have
called for a royal commission into the abuse of Tasmania's
forests by the state's timber industry......
MELBOURNE
AGE... |
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Devils cancer spreads
Matthew Denholm - September 24, 2004
THE disease killing Tasmanian
devils is more widespread than feared,
with cases confirmed in the island's southern forests
for the first time. The bad news emerged after a tip-off
to the Tasmanian Greens, who
accused the state Government yesterday of keeping
the public in the dark about possible links between
the animals' facial tumour disease and forestry practices.
"We've received confirmation the disease has
been found in the state's southern forests in high
percentages," Greens environment spokesman Nick
McKim said.......
THE
AUSTRALIAN...
Devil disease over most of State:
Greens
By CHRIS JOHNSON , Friday, 24 September 2004
The facial tumour disease inflicting the State's Tasmanian
Devil population appears to be more widespread than
the Government has reported.......
LAUNCESTON
EXAMINER...
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The Tasmanian Devil
Disease? Cancer?
or just Poison?
Courtesy
THE SCAMMELL REPORT
Dr Marcus Scammel, is a senior scientist for the
Sydney Water Board |
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| FRENZY OF FORESTRY
VANDALISM PLANNED FOR AFTER THE ELECTION |
Forestry frenzy poll compo bid,
says Law
By DANNY ROSE - 21 September 2004
FORESTRY Tasmania has been accused of trying to ramp
up a possible multi-million-dollar compensation package
from the next federal government. The Wilderness
Society said Forestry
Tasmania's latest three-year
activity plan had outlined an intended "frenzy"
of new logging roads and plantation establishment,
statewide. ......... Mr Law said Forestry
Tasmania's latest plan included 1400 proposed new
logging coupes, 13,000ha of native forest converted
to plantations and 750km of new logging roads. .........
"The level of logging inside the areas proposed
for protection is huge........
HOBART
MERCURY... |
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