Kathryn Scott
From any responsible criteria of assessment, for governments to facilitate and condone the long-term economic destruction being imposed on our state by MIS plantation forestry corporations is against all democratic principles and can only be described as stupidity. Whether MIS plantation forestry is examined from an economic, environmental, democratic principles, health, morality, sustainability, water management, or community welfare from present and future perspective it is a disaster. I call on the Federal Government to withdraw all tax exemption incentives on so-called “MIS investments” given at huge taxpayer expense. The State Government needs to immediately remove the PAL policy guarantees to MIS plantation forestry corporations on all agricultural land and not just the prime 4.3% of our good farmland.
GOVERNMENTS are, at taxpayers’ expense, facilitating and encouraging the rapid transfer of ownership of more and more of our highly productive farms (in higher and reliable rainfall areas of our state) from local farming families to absentee MIS forestry plantation corporations.
This is a Government sponsored sustained attack and betrayal of the communities trust in favour of MIS plantation forestry land-grabbing.
From any responsible criteria of assessment, for governments to facilitate and condone the long-term economic destruction being imposed on our state by MIS plantation forestry corporations is against all democratic principles and can only be described as stupidity.
Whether MIS plantation forestry is examined from an economic, environmental, democratic principles, health, morality, sustainability, water management, or community welfare from present and future perspective it is a disaster.
MIS plantation forestry is a land grab that will cruelly impose our gullibility and betrayal on future farming generations who will desperately need that land.
There is neither rationale nor any credible evidence to support the continuance of this tax avoidance facilitated and driven MIS national disaster being imposed at the expense of responsible and sustainable land management.
I call on the Federal Government to withdraw all tax exemption incentives on so-called “MIS investments” given at huge taxpayer expense.
The State Government needs to immediately remove the PAL policy guarantees to MIS plantation forestry corporations on all agricultural land and not just the prime 4.3% of our good farmland.
Already our agricultural production, economic survival and potential development is being severely reduced, restrained and restricted into perpetuity.
Is losing our farms, irreversibly damaging our soils, losing our water, our economy, our health, and what we need for our survival into the future sustainable and sensible management?
Kathryn Scott
