I’m so angry I could spit

Joan Dehle Emberg

Paul Harriss admits he asked John Gay to grease the skids because they ‘couldn’t just rock up and have a look around’. In view of the fact that Parliament is currently considering legislation on John Gay’s proposed mill, how can they be so brainless as to think they are not compromising their integrity?

SO, seven politicians … Tania Rattray-Wagner, Ivan Dean, Greg Hall, Ruth Forrest, Paul Harriss, Sue Napier and Peter Gutwein accept a free trip to Finland, Chile and Brazil … accompanied by John Gay’s lobbyist, Tony Fletcher.

These politicians are gullible.

At worst they are fools.

Paul Harriss admits he asked John Gay to grease the skids because they ‘couldn’t just rock up and have a look around’. In view of the fact that Parliament is currently considering legislation on John Gay’s proposed mill, how can they be so brainless as to think they are not compromising their integrity?

Are Rattray Wagner, Dean, Hall, Forrest, Harris, Napier and Gutwein so gullible as to think that ‘greasing of skids is not an open invitation to ‘greasing something else?

The seven say they will interview local residents. Are they so gullible as to think they will randomly knock on doors? Who will select these residents … the mill managers? Who will the residents be … mill employees? Where will they live … far from the mill … upwind? Will these interviewees be paid to say the rights things?

The seven appear to have swallowed John Gay’s duplicity when he claims the recent pro mill rally was ‘the biggest Tasmania has ever seen. Did they purposely forget the Franklin Dam? Besides that … John Gay lied about the numbers at his rally.

The seven seem to believe John Gay’s misrepresentation of the anti mill rally. They also appear to accept the maligning of opponents as ‘tree huggers’ and ‘ferals’

The seven have been reprehensible in dismissing opposing evidence, thereby maligning renowned hydrologists, experts in lung disease, doctors, business people and local residents

In jumping to John Gay’s demand for a fast track assessment, the seven dumped the RPDC In so doing, they also dumped their promise to be guided solely by the RPDC’s recommendations. So much for believing our elected officials …

Maybe a better word is ‘trust’.