Environment
The lawyers’ banquet
Matthew Denholm The Australian
CONFUSION surrounds the federal assessment process for Gunns’s $2 billion pulp mill, with the Tasmanian Government receiving advice that Malcolm Turnbull has fatally bungled the process. The Australian has learned the Lennon Government has advice from the state’s Solicitor-General that the federal Environment Minister has failed to legally extend his assessment.
The Age: Poll threat to mill decision
Dr Warwick Raverty New Matilda
Deeply suspicious of this peculiar Government-Gunns relationship, the majority of Tasmanians who had been happy became very unhappy. Both major political Parties saw only an electoral ‘poisoned chalice’ in the situation and sought to keep the problem out of the national limelight. Peter Garrett – shaved defender of the environment – instantly became ‘Pulpmill Pete.’
Mercury Pulp mill victory