Watch:
Pro-Tasmanian Pulp Mill Rally (Part 1)
The Mercury Report: HERE
An alternative view:
Pulp the mill, we can, we will
Now is the time for turning
Reap the whirlwind
Every picture …
And, Leo Schofield Bulletin
But No. 1 speaker was Tasmania’s most famous son, author Richard Flanagan, who threw down the gauntlet to Howard and Rudd, promising that whoever wins next weekend “will have to deal with the fallout of the biggest civil disobedience campaign in Australian history since the Franklin River blockade”. “And if we are arrested and thrown in jail, then we will go to jail in our 10s, we will go to jail in our hundreds, we will go to jail in our thousands, and Paul Lennon will have to build seven new prisons to house all the people who will come and who will keep on coming before they even attempt to pour the foundations of one new pulp mill.” It was a Churchillian performance, and sure beat the pulp out of the pageant. Read more here
