Environment
What it means
Sue Neales Mercury
INADVERTENTLY perhaps, the underlying signals sent by both Wriedt and Llewellyn — and their inconsistencies in the pulp mill debate — also play right into the hands of restless Government backbencher Lisa Singh. On Monday she will appeal to her colleagues, at a closed meeting of the 18 members of the Parliamentary Labor Party, to support a “free” vote on the mill’s ultimate approval according to individual conscience.
To ram home that point to her colleagues, she quotes to them part of a powerful speech by former US president and civil rights champion Abraham Lincoln when addressing his own parliament: “We cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honour or dishonour, to the latest generations. We hold the power and we bear the responsibility.”
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