The threats forum

Bob McMahon

The Real and Present Threats to Tasmania’s (and Australia’s) Survivability

This is the first of a series of forums jointly organized by ABA (A Better Australia) and TAP (Tasmanians Against the Pulpmill) to examine current and future problems confronting Australia and to develop strategies for dealing with them …

The format is an open public forum, democracy in action you might say, led by guest speakers with the emphasis firmly on public participation. If you have something to say you will be heard.

WHERE: Community Centre behind Riverside High School, West Tamar Rd (entrance off Brownfield Lane)

WHEN: Monday January 21st at 7.00pm

GUEST SPEAKERS

Robert Belcher
Robert Belcher is the founder of SACA (Sustainable Agricultural Communities Australia) and has been an heroic and long term campaigner against MIS (Managed Investment Schemes) tree plantations which are destroying Australia’s ability to produce its own food. He has a farm near the Snowy High Country on the Victoria/NSW border.
He will be painting a comprehensive picture of what the real threats are to rural and regional Australia: climate change, water resources, carbon credits, corporatisation of Australia’s agriculture, MIS schemes, the economic and social impacts of tree plantations, and why a pulp mill in Tasmania would drive rural Tasmania, and Tasmania’s economy as a whole, into meltdown.

Mike Bolan
Mike is a complex system consultant, and along with Paul Wilson, developed a complete Integrated Impact Statement for the proposed pulp mill, a job which the pulp mill proponent scandalously failed to do.
He will be leading a progressive discussion on how citizens can take their futures into their own hands, to decide on what sort of future they wish for themselves and for this island, and to DESIGN for it.

The next forum to be held in early February will examine alternative uses for our forests.