GREEN FAIRY ABSINTHE is a wonderful drink. So revelatory.
Taking large draughts with a disgruntled insider in a place I cannot mention the other early morning I heard an interesting profile of the venerable, ubiquitous Dennis (Rogers).
TT-Line Chairman Dennis, my drinking partner told me, is being let off the hook by Big Red. They are very good mates, extremely good mates, it seems …
Which is what you’d want for a government owned business … to have one of your mates running it because there is no risk in Dennis coming out to challenge the government.
In fact Big Red’s love of Dennis Rogers is even deeper. Dennis introduced Big Red to the Packers and PBL. And he will never do wrong in the eyes of Rough Red.
On his fifth Absinthe, my mate then went on to detail the strange relationship of TT Line with Tourism Tasmania.
When SPOT !!! came on board, it appears a group of eight international journalists wanted to do a sailing and write about the trip.
These sorts of journalists write for some of the biggest newspapers in the world — The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Canada’s Globe and Mail, etc etc
It seems that TT Line communications staff felt that the international sector was not important. So it never happened.
Then when Urs Walterlin (Suddeusctche Zeitung wanted to go on the boat to do a Swiss travel programme a blackban on him was imposed.
Why? Because in 2003 he wrote a critical article about Forestry. You can read it on Tasmanian Times here: How Suddeutsche Zeitung sees Tasmania (2) …
Hag happens to know Urs has actually written dozens of articles on Tasmania, one of which helped spur a 1.7 billion dollar investment in nickel in Tasmania.
Oh god, these utterly blinkered throwbacks running Tasmania. …
