I think Mr Harris now realises that FT let him down with Bob Gordon quoting false regrowth volumes to support a log peeling plant as an alternative to harvest of pulpwood residues from the forest.
As it stands Ta Ann is not benefiting the future health and well being of our State Forests.
Most likely private property owners dont want Ta Ann touching their regrowth forests, who could blame them.
From all accounts Evan Rolley is now the bad guy and Mr Harris realises this, fine, now it is time to get to the bottom of all this masquerading before any reformed TGA outcome is widely acceptable.
The delegation representing the displacement of native peoples that recently spoke here in Tasmania has shown that Hydro Tasmania have inadvertently been caught up in a massive dams scandal in Sarawak.

The Tasmanian government needs to tread very carefully with inviting foreign investment into our state, the Sarawak experience was unfortunate and should not be repeated.
I would like to extend my concerns to the dairy farmers that are proposing a massive buy up of land by the Chinese that includes Circular Head properties, including Rushy Lagoon in the NE and I believe properties within the Fingal-Mathinna area too.
Goodness knows what Premier Lara Gidding told these Asians during her recent visit to Asia, as far as I am concerned we dont want them taking over our land and forcing servility on workers rights in this country.
The solution is, our farmers can produce food for the Asians at our call not theirs.

I must give my personal thanks to Mr and Mrs Wikipedia, for they have told us plenty about how this man and his trusted family members and relatives, what it was and is doing that has elevated the Taib Mahmud family into such prominence.

Both worried and dismayed are the people of Tasmania to see that this State MLC Mr Paul Harriss, (pictured above) is supposedly representing the interests of the State of Tasmania and its citizens?

Something that I just cannot understand is how the people of this State were railroaded into being considered as though we are so supportive toward this so-called trading partner business relationship, (or call it what you will,) which I believe would be better described as a dealing with a nest of fearsome attacking poisonous vipers?

What I do understand is, just how ex-Premier Paul Lennon would have felt quite at home being involved with this clan.

I note that this current State government have two former Lennonist era individuals filling the high chairs of this present State Labor government, in Lara Giddings and Bryan (the giggler) Green, now Premier and Deputy Premier?

Now there is something to truly wonder about, surely this new pair of anti-the-people, pro the Sarawak connection,) now high placed State ministers past, did not come about by some sort of coincidence?

Again I ask the attendees here to remember the time of the TCC scandal that had Bryan Green named as the alleged culprit, then being charged with committing the serious offence of interfering in the due processes of ministerial procedure, which at that time was to benefit an Ex-labor minister mate of Bryan Green?

There were indeed some rather disreputable alliances formed back in those suspicious times of this then reigning Premier who is still a noisy disrupting individual to this very day.

maybe the tassie premier could do with some of the loot

the lab -greens are now planning to spend up $millions on the tassie bankcard which the tassie treasury does not have, & is not advising whose taxes will be going up to pay for it as yet.

Who would ever believe a tale about an island whose environmental organisations went on an international tour to spruik for what is quite possibly the most rapacious logging concern in the world? And all with the total support of an ostensibly democratic government.

The story, at least, may be worth a quid.

John Hayward

When he backs the YES case Ex Premier Lennon of Betfair and Broadmarsh fame seems a remarkable convert to the Green mantra of the preservation of over 500,000 new State Forest acres into reserves.

On the other hand if you are a lobbyist or hired gun principles tend to go out of the window.

Lennon may I respectfully suggest could be a smoking gun.

“Corruption, bribery, defamation, libel, scam, blockades, deaths, coercion and kickbacks”. Those words may not mean much to the members of the Upper House. I wonder why?

There are leaders and decent vision in our community, just most don’t tend to want to be party to and toe the line to party interests. One can’t lead when your stifled, your vision impaired by a ‘club’ of self interest … Holding a party or indeed government to ransom, which is essentially what Ta ann is doing, is the lowest of the lowest form of government control.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-11/mlcs-not-ready-for-forestry-debate/4420314?section=tas

Whilst it is good to hear from Ruth Forest that … ‘there would be no vote until information about funding for the deal has been provided.’ this is such an important issue which involves so many of the community in many different ways, it is ridiculous to have the LegCo sit between Christmas and the New Year – fast tracking with little public insight/input, which will happen in that time, is NOT good enough. Please Ruth Forest push to allow this issue to be properly scrutinized AFTER the New Year. Such important issues require some decency of appropriate consideration.

#5, John Hawkins. A “yes” from Thuggo, or from anyone else in the woodchip club, would indeed be remarkable were it not for such towering conditions as the guarantee that no one complains about gross breaches of the Agreement by the industry over an undefined period.

John Hayward

Can this State not rid itself of this unpopular 17% Thuggo Lennon, this man and his bickering dickering interferences in today’s Tasmania is totally unwarranted, unprincipled, and bound to be hard set against the interests of the Tasmanian people?
He is the man who became a State Premier without being elected, a sort of default result that in time morphed into an insult.
He and his horse-racing mate, the former State Treasurer, Michael Aird, were known for their kind multi-million dollar funding allocations oft directed to their race-course touting drinking mates and in their wasting foolishnesses of taxpayer revenues in other feeble fanciful race-course plotted and promised endeavours.

Has this Lennon now forgotten that his every word in times past was cause for enormous disharmony in our communities State-wide?

Who pays for these former failed and dumped from the job ex-political humbugs that now call themselves lobbyists, as they go about their foot jammed in the doorway lobbying for this State’s very own GBE, widely known for its excessive plundering and destroying of the State’s Ancient Old Growth Forests to their ultimate extinction?

Indeed this GBE is even engaged in chopping the buggery out of the State’s ‘former proclaimed Regrowth Forests,’ (what little there is of these designated areas,) no not for the benefit of this State, but to help that Billionaire Family over in Sarawak to feed the world markets that are easily pursuaded that this timber originating from Tasmania is some sort of highly sustainable Eco-growth???
let there be a pox cast upon the non-profitable, false claiming, gravy-train of looters that dare to call their constant disputational selves to be a legitimate Government Enterprise Business.

Even in the branding of themselves as some sort of responsible caretaker to our forests, by naming its squanderous un-restrained mischievious self as Forestry Tasmania!
What need is being served in this nasty hoaxing action being roundly supported by this State’s government, that has been long played-out and still is- upon the people of Tasmania.

Watching the Legco in action increases dismay. Just about everyone has declared an ‘amour’ for Ta Ann. Do these people not read or acquaint themselves with the international dealings of this group? Due diligence appears to be a misnomer. If big business, international engos and sovereign governments have cause for concern, why doesn’t our Legco? Laundering of timber and money from other places through Sarawak caused international controversy. Alternately, the greasing of influence is more widespread in our polity than has thus far been publicly revealed. The ability of Ta Ann to try to greenwash itself in Tasmania is anathema and should be discontinued. Has Abetz been over there yet to pay his respects? Perhaps he could join up with TWS for their forecast next trip? I can only conclude that Burke and Gillard are trying a $50+million sweetener for the Malaysian timber cartel in the hope of getting a refugee exchange deal in Malaysia. What else could it be?