Super Annoyed retires from Tasmanian Times!

Super Annoyed

The new asylum laws are the disgusting final straws for this camel’s back. I think there is a good chance that this ugly government might get the flick at the next federal election and I am happy to commit myself to this end.

REJOICE my fellow TTers, Rejoice!

Today Super Annoyed retires from his contributions to Tasmanian Times.

Why?

Well, SA is joining a political party and so departs from his non-partisan stance on which he has been making commentary in anonymity.

Why is SA joining a political party? It is not because he agrees with everything this Party is doing on a State level, it is because the straw that has broken his back is the Federal Liberal Party’s policies on refugees seeking asylum.

For years, this nasty group has been eroding many of the cultural and social features of Australian life so we are a much greedier and inward-looking bunch than what SA is comfortable with.

The new asylum laws are the disgusting final straws for this camel’s back. I think there is a good chance that this ugly government might get the flick at the next federal election and I am happy to commit myself to this end.

Also, SA feels that it is appropriate to depart as, while there is a lot of heat being generated over the pulp mill, I suspect it will cruise in (god help Gunns’ shareholders), and, in addition, the forestry issue is not what it once was. I think we are getting towards the end of the forestry wars as a mainstream issue and these endless he-said, she-said debates on TT no longer have the same resonance.

It was fun

But it was fun and my thanks to all contributors, even the nutty ones. SA finds that there is no longer as much joy in exposing the handful of nuts for their shallow arguments and biased perspectives — I am not going to change their way of seeing the world, nor they, mine.

The Walker-Ralphs Bay issue is still a hot issue and I wish the protestors the best of luck. I will be doing what I can in my real-life role to aid this cause. I see the Walker development as the epitome of the wrong that the Federal Government is doing to the Australian psyche, and it should be defeated before it wrecks our golden way of life. I suspect that it won’t get up at the end of the day …

Finally, I would like to assure TTers that what defence I have put up in favour of Forestry has been based on protecting the jobs of the thousands of Tasmanians who depend on this resource, and also to counteract ridiculous propaganda that masks the Greens’ attempt to eliminate industrial forestry practises.

Also, I fall on the side of believing that Forestry Tasmania does a pretty good job and provides the science that underlies forest management both commercially and for other purposes. I don’t expect many TTers to agree, but I would hope for more respect for alternative views and the people working hard to understand and manage forestry and Tasmanian
ecosystems.

So, so long everyone. When I post again, it will be with my real name sometime in the future.

My best wishes to the Editor for the marvellous site that TT is.