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DISCOVER TASMANIA MEDIA RELEASE
3 OCTOBER 2003
to view the insults one has to bear when exposing the truth in Tasmania.
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Emily's letter to the PM
"...... I am only a young person, but hopefully, through this letter, you have felt how I and many others feel and especially express our feelings to you about this inhumane, savage, and violent act."
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Forestry Tasmania criticised at Senate committee ~ ABC NEWS report 9 October 2003
"The forestry industry culture he said was one of "BULLYING, CRONYISM, SECRECY and LIES".

"When an exasperated Mr Manning finally tried to prosecute FORESTRY TASMANIA, his charge books were taken from him. He was shifted elsewhere in the public service"...... THE MELBOURNE AGE

The nightmare began when he alleged FORESTRY TASMANIA had breached the Threatened Species Protection Act, the Forest Practices Act and the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act............"Within two weeks, the chief forest practices officer had demanded my notice books withdrawn. My authority to lay complaints under the Forest Practices Act was withdrawn as well." Mr Manning said the person stripping him of his power was FPB [Forest Practices Board] chairman, Ken Felton. Mr Felton is an executive director of FORESTRY TASMANIA...... THE SUNDAY TASMANIAN

Senate committee hearings THE MANNING TRANSCRIPT - PDF 450k

Some evidence PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE

forest practices despots are protected from Senate scrutiny by Tasmanian government mule - HOBART MERCURY
  Global Rescue Station in Styx Valley 
On November 12, 2003, GREENPEACE and THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY launched an international campaign to save Tasmania's Styx forest. Activists have constructed a tree platform, dubbed Global Rescue Station, 65 metres up one of the world's tallest trees.
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SEE THE WEBSITE FOR BREAKING NEWS AND PICTURES OF THE CAMPAIGN
SEE WHAT THE PRESS SAYS
JAPAN TIMES  •   JAPAN TODAY  •   MERCURY-1  •   MERCURY-2  •   GUARDIAN-UK
SOME OF THE LATEST ON FORESTRY SUSTAINABILITY
NEW ZEALAND EXPERIENCE  •   POLLUTION KILLS KELP
AND SOME MIND BLOWING IMAGES
PIX FROM THE STYX
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GUNNS Ltd UNDER ATTACK BY GREENPEACE
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD  •  MELBOURNE AGE  •  AGE - 2
Win for northern Tasmanian couple John & Lynn Hayward who took on the Tasmanian forestry despots in the Supreme Court under recently introduced administrative review legislation in Tasmania that brought it in line with the rest of Australia. The win sets a precedent for natural justice, but the Tasmanian Government is now seeking to change the law to nullify the win.
MERCURY REPORT
THE START OF THINGS TO COME FOR TASMANIA
   GLOBAL WARMING LAWSUIT  
The old Tasmanian minority culture prevails,
"if it moves shoot it, if it doesn't chop it down"
MERCURY WOOD DUCK REPORT
LAUNCH OF FAIR-TRADING.com
 FAIR-TRADING.com 
BRINGING THE FAIR TRADING OF TASMANIA TO TASMANIAN TOURISM
AND FIND OUT MORE ABOUT TASMANIA'S APPALLING WATER QUALITY
HECTOR THE PROTECTOR - LAST DAYS OF FREEDOM - HELP NEEDED
ANOTHER THREAT OF CRIMINAL ACTION AGAINST DISCOVER TASMANIA
and NOW TALK OF CLASS ACTIONS...... against GUNNS Ltd
THE LATEST NEWS PAGE
Headlines  LATEST NEWS HERE  Headlines
Honourable BRETT WHITELEY and the Tasmanian Liberals have been complaining that lots of other people including the Tasmanian Greens have links on this website. My my, we did forget to link to
THE MOST VORACIOUS SUPPORTERS OF CURRENT TASMANIAN FORESTRY PRACTICES.
Can't leave the Libs out can we, here is your link:
TASMANIAN STATE LIBERALS POLITICAL PARTY

TASMANIAN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION INC.
TPNA Manifesto Launch
 Lake St.Clair Tasmania, 9 November 2003
Tasmanian Tourism is a unique visitor experience, be stunned and mentally rejuvenated by discovering Tasmania's best kept secrets.
Tourism in Tasmania provides:
Wilderness, World Heritage, Wildlife, Rain Forest, Beaches, Mountains, Markets, Fine Food.
Beautiful Celery Top Pine, Red Myrtle, Sassafras, Blackwood, Rainforest Timbers and Eucalypt (Tassie Oak)
Discover Tasmania Australia, Discover an icon, its beauty and its stunning minority Tasmanian Culture,
Discover Tasmania's Best Kept Secrets.
Cradle Mountain, Freycinet Peninsula , World Heritage, Port Arthur, Tasman Peninsula, Huon, Tasmanian East Coast, Strahan, Bicheno, Hobart, Salamanca, Launceston, West Coast, Governor Richard Butler,

SEE WHAT SOME OTHERS SAY ABOUT TASMANIA
GLOWING OVERSEAS REPORTS
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL STORIES
 
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION
CHANNEL NINE SUNDAY NATIONAL TELEVISION SHOW ON FORESTRY IN TASMANIA
READ THE 9 PAGE CHANNEL NINE TRANSCRIPT OF FORESTRY TASMANIA STYLE
•  500 year old trees blown up and burnt  
•  90 percent of trees felled are woodchipped  
•  900 tonnes of woodchips per hour - 24 hours a day  
•  GUNNS Ltd plan to bulldoze endangered and protected tree species foiled  
•  Mushroom Cloud, like a Nuclear Explosion  
•  Napalm   •  Whistleblowing silenced  
 •   Third World Practice in Tasmania  •  Streams bulldozed  
•  Cruelty of 1080 poison on protected species such as Wombats and Ring Tail Possums  
  •  Mercy killing by bashing to death or throat cutting with a pocket knife, "bloody disgusting"  
 •  John Gay managing director of GUNNS Ltd says, "there are too many protected species"  
 A VIDEO OF THE SHOW "Tasmania Fire Sale"
Channel Nine Sunday 09/02/03
can be purchased from TV Archives in Sydney - Ph: 61 2 9906 9999
"Lords of the Forests" - ABC Four Corners
FOUR CORNERS - LORDS OF THE FORESTS

MORE FROM THE NEWS GALLERY
AFTER THE MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF SUPERB TASMANIAN CRAFTSMANSHIP IN RARE SPECIES TIMBER AS SHOWN ABOVE... THE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT YET NEEDS MORE RED MYRTLE (PICTURE) AND IS GOING TO VISIT THE TARKINE TO GET IT AND CREATE MORE TASMANIAN RAINFOREST GETAWAY.
  THE TARKINE IS A GONDWANA ANCIENT RAIN FOREST  
  |   BIGGEST WILDERNESS RAINFOREST IN AUSTRALIA TO BE LOGGED
GREENS UP THE ANTE TO SAVE RED MYRTLE   |   ONE LOG WORTH $25,000 WHEN USED SENSIBLY
A NATIONAL OUTCRY   |   WHEN GOOD NEWS MEANS A SLOW DEATH   |   WILDERNESS SOCIETY

"THEY USE MY WORK TO SELL WOODCHIPS"
"Forestry Tasmania's sponsorship of the Wood Trust and Wood Design Collection was tarting up the reality."
LIBERAL POLITICIAN HELPS LAUNCH WEBSITE
SEE....
 DEFAMATION TASMANIA  
AS TO THE REMEDY UNDER WAY IN THIE ABOVE MATTER
DISCOVER TASMANIA SUES LIBERAL LEADER
  TO THE WRIT - PDF
Your Bank is Profiting from the Death of these Animals
TASMANIAN NATIVE WILDLIFE
TELL YOUR BANK OR SUPER FUND HOW TO VOTE TO STOP THIS
A REPORT THAT THE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT TO READ - PDF 108k
by GRAHAM GREEN, TIMBER WORKERS FOR FORESTS INC.
 CLEARFELLING and WOODCHIPPING IN TASMANIA - AN ECONOMIC APPRAISAL
Barry Chipman of Timber Communities Australia, a political front for the forestry corporations,has been virtually accused of misleading an Australian Senate Inquiry into forestry plantations in Australia.
ADVOCATE REPORT

WIPO & ACCC COMPLAINTS

•  REPORTS on BRIBERY and CORRUPTION  •
The Australian Homepage, QUOTE:
"It reads like a John Grisham novel – a story about corporate greed, political corruption and environmental destruction that demonstrates how parties on both sides of the political spectrum, and business can collaborate so an organisation is protected by legislation to become Australia’s largest woodchipping company."
GUNNS Ltd
The Melbourne Age, QUOTE:
"When [Edmund] Rouse undertook the bribery attempt, he was chairman of GUNNS. Its failure ended any direction of the company by him. Not so the others who were entangled. [John] Gay stayed as chief executive, and last week he officially became its executive chairman. Both [Robin] Gray and [David] McQuestin are well-established GUNNS directors."
BY TERESA DOWDING
"Royal commissioner William Carter confirmed that Robin Gray, the then Liberal premier of Tasmania, had acted “deceitfully and dishonestly” and had been "misleading and deceptively evasive."
Robin Gray is a current director of GUNNS Ltd
MUGSHOT @ McGUNNS
Headlines Forestry Tasmania criticised at Senate committee ~ Reproduced from ABC NEWS report 9 October 2003
A former Tasmanian forestry employee has given evidence to a Senate Committee in Canberra criticising the state's logging industry.
Bill Manning, a former auditor with the Forest Practices Board, said his old employer is "hopelessly compromised" by an industry riddled with cronyism and corruption.
A forester of 32 years' experience, Mr Manning's explosive evidence to the Senate hearing painted Tasmania's forestry industry as largely unsupervised and unregulated, negligent and subject to corruption.
He told Senators standards were dropping and that the regulatory framework is in "freefall".
He said sources within Forestry Tasmania had told him bonuses were paid in exchange for forest practices plans favourable to loggers.
"Senior staff involved in management of the plantation industry have been paying bonuses relative to maximum areas logged and thus woodchip-generated," he said.
The forestry industry culture he said was one of "bullying, cronyism, secrecy and lies".
He also alleged the chief forest practices officer instructed subordinates not to make him aware of breaches in more than 80 forest practices plans until time had elapsed for their prosecution.
Mr Manning was originally scheduled to appear before the Senate inquiry when it sat in Launceston two months ago.
The hearing was abandoned after protestors staged a sit-in.
"When an exasperated Mr Manning finally tried to prosecute FORESTRY TASMANIA, his charge books were taken from him. He was shifted elsewhere in the public service"...... THE MELBOURNE AGE
The nightmare began when he alleged FORESTRY TASMANIA had breached the Threatened Species Protection Act, the Forest Practices Act and the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act............"Within two weeks, the chief forest practices officer had demanded my notice books withdrawn. My authority to lay complaints under the Forest Practices Act was withdrawn as well." Mr Manning said the person stripping him of his power was FPB [Forest Practices Board] chairman, Ken Felton. Mr Felton is an executive director of FORESTRY TASMANIA...... THE SUNDAY TASMANIAN
Senate committee hearings TRANSCRIPT OF ABOVE MATTER PDF - 450k
forest practices despots are protected from Senate scrutiny by Tasmanian government mule - HOBART MERCURY

A STORY ON FARMING IN TASMANIA
"When we moved to Tasmania 16-months ago, we had no idea of the true extent of environmental destruction that was happening in this State. We are glad to have learnt the truth, and remain incensed as to what has been going on in this falsely-promoted 'clean and green' State, as we deeply love Tasmania and its people."

• A CRY FROM THE HEART by CHRISTOPHER PURCELL
• FAT CAT WOODCHIPPER GUNNS Ltd, SUES STUART YOUNG FOR $4.000 IN THE SUPREME COURT
• WEALTH OF THE FATTEST CAT
• GUNNS LOOSE -- PRECEDENT SET ON 1080
• THE SUPREME COURT DECISION

• MORE....
HAVE YOUR SAY AT THE TASMANIAN TIMES
TASMANIAN TIMES
PUBLISH YOUR ARTICLE AT TASMEDIA
TASMEDIA
SUBMIT A PUBLISHED ARTICLE OR A DIGITAL PHOTO TO DISCOVER TASMANIA
DISCOVER TASMANIA
SOME MORE ON WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT TASMANIA
PLANET ARK_1    |    PLANET ARK_2    |    TAS GREENS   |     |   PAGAN AUSTRALIAN   |   BAN 1080
LAWYERS FOR FORESTS    |   BOYCOTT WOODCHIPPING   |   FOR THE FORESTS (History of Tasmanian Forest Exploitation - Helen Gee)
Tasmanian Timber Workers   
 TIMBER WORKERS FOR FORESTS
WARNING TO FORESTRY PLANTATION INVESTORS
 

TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND FESTIVAL
Robyn Archer, Festival Director, has suggested publicly that,
"sponsorship money is like sausage meat - it is best not to ask where it comes from."
Here is some data regarding Artists who disagree with attempted laundering of Forestry Tasmania's image by its sponsorship of the Festival and have disassociated themselves from the Festival in disgust.

In Tasmania you can also discover...
Tasmania is the Woodchip Capital of Australia and exports more Woodchips than all the rest of Australia put together.
See the Tasmanian Old Growth Forests such as the Styx valley (VALLEY OF THE GIANTS) being exterminated in pursuit of the WOODCHIP industry driven by corporate greed and SHAREHOLDER acquiescence. Trees over 80 metres tall and older than 400 years, are being cut down and sold for pulpwood, for as low as $7 a ton.
According to a Forestry Tasmania fact sheet, “in wood production terms, the Styx State forests have an estimated market value of some $270 million”.
WARNING TO POTENTIAL FORESTRY PLANTATION INVESTORS
Tasmania is the Clean Green State.
Behind the locked gates (PICTURE) of forestry roads, chilling genocide of clearfelling, NAPALM FIRE BOMBING & 1080 POISONING is taking place to support growth in the WOODCHIP industry.
Come and see the use of 1080 in Tasmania.
1080 is a highly toxic poison, one teaspoon of 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate) can kill 100 people. It dissolves in rainwater becoming colourless, tasteless and odorless.
Rainwater washes into STREAMS, STREAMS feed into drinking water.
There is no antidote. Death by 1080 poisoning is one of the most horrific and cruel ways in which an animal can die. 1080 is a 'super toxin' evolved for use as a chemical agent by the military.
TOURISM OPERATORS FOR FORESTS
are a group of approximately 100 businesses around Tasmania who are trying to get their message out within the Tourism Industry and beyond. They are looking for new members and would like to establish networks with tourism operators of like mind.
COMING TO THIS SITE
A Tasmanian Directory of Tourism, Temptations, Getaway, Tourist, Visitors, Travel, BRAND Tasmania, Media, FLOWERS, Conventions, Casino, History, Heritage, National Parks, ACCOMMODATION, Holidays, Vacations, Where to Stay Tourism Council Tasmania,, Resorts, Caravan and Holiday Parks, Hotels, Motels, Villas, Cabins, Units, B&B, FLORIST, Bed and Breakfast, Coach and Car Tours, WHAT VISITORS SAY, Hire Cars, Self Drive, Festivals, Events, ATTRACTIONS, Lifestyle, Wine and Food, Byron Bay Accommodation, Regions and Towns, News, Fishing, Trout, Bookings, Reservations, Cultural Charm, Real Estate, DTPHA, Tourism, Parks, Heritage and the Arts, Aboriginal Heritage, Climate and Weather, Galleries and Museums, Parks, FOREST, FORESTRY and FORESTS, Waterways, Scenic Flights, ADVENTURES, Ferries and Cruises, TT Line, Spirit of Tasmania, Ferry to Tasmania, Flora and Fauna, BEAUTIFUL TIMBER, Tall Trees, Styx, Hire Car, DRIVING in TASMANIA, Backpacking, Backpackers, Golf, Golfing, Railway, POSTCARD FROM TASMANIA, Sport, Visitor Information, Governor Richard Butler, Dive, Diving, FAQ, Ten Days on the Island, BUSINESS, Law, Finance Investment and Investments, All things Tasmanian about Tasmania at Home in Australia's Natural State.
WEBSITE BY:
Gordon Craven
THIS WEBSITE HAS NO AFFILIATION WITH THE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT
OR ITS PREMIER OR ITS FUTURE GOVERNOR, RICHARD BUTLER
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