THURSDAY Matthew Denholm The Australian
JOHN Howard has refused to intervene in the increasingly bitter public brawl between former adviser and confidant Geoffrey Cousins and Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Mr Cousins fired the first shot on Tuesday, telling The Australian he would campaign against Mr Turnbull in his marginal Sydney seat of Wentworth in an attempt to overturn the minister’s approval for Gunns’s proposed $2 billion pulp mill in northern Tasmania.
Ninemsn: Turnbull may delay pulp mill decision
WEDNESDAY Matthew Denholm The Australian
A LEADING businessman and former senior adviser to John Howard will personally campaign against federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull in his marginal Sydney seat in a bid to reverse federal approval for a Tasmanian pulp mill. Geoffrey Cousins, a long-time confidant of the Prime Minister and his nominee to the Telstra board last year, has become a leading campaigner against fast-track approval for the $2 billion Gunns project. Yesterday he told The Australian that he and others planned a campaign in Mr Turnbull’s eastern Sydney seat of Wentworth to inform voters about the minister’s “total cop-out” in approving the mill, which he said would devastate Tasmania’s tourism industry.
Earlier on TT: Wondering where Turnbull’s Worth Went?
