Nick McKim Greens MR
“Former Labor Premier Jim Bacon promised to implement all of the Tasmania Together recommendations, but failed to do so, and for Mr Bartlett to act would be a demonstration of leadership and connection to the community,” Mr McKim said.
GOVERNMENT MUST IMPLEMENT TASMANIA TOGETHER TARGETS TO END COMMUNITY CONFLICT OVER FORESTS
Nick McKim MP
Greens Leader
Saturday, 1 November 2008
www.tas.greens.org.au
The Tasmanian Greens today said that the vehicles firebombed in the Florentine Valley were are stark reminder of the need for calm in Tasmania’s forests, and said that a major step towards this goal would be for on Premier David Bartlett to implement the Tasmania Together targets of ending clearfelling in Tasmania’s high conservation value forests.
Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that the root cause of the violence in Tasmania’s forests is the Bartlett government’s deliberate prioritisation of roading and logging activities in contentious areas of Tasmania’s magnificent high conservation value forests.
“Former Labor Premier Jim Bacon promised to implement all of the Tasmania Together recommendations, but failed to do so, and for Mr Bartlett to act would be a demonstration of leadership and connection to the community,” Mr McKim said.
“Tasmania Together was the largest ever community consultation process in Tasmania, and is loudly touted by Labor when it suits them. The government should be upholding former Premier Jim Bacon’s commitment to meet all the recommendations, not just the ones which are politically expedient.”
“The best way to end the conflict in Tasmania’s forests is for the government to cease logging in Tasmania’s magnificent high conservation value forests as recommended by the Tasmania Together process.”
Mr McKim said that the sight of the firebombed and axe-marked vehicles should cause Premier David Bartlett to review the comments he made in the wake of the recent unacceptable violence towards forest defenders.
“Premier Bartlett had a go at the victims of the violence while I the next breath sympathising with the contractors – hardly the kind of comments that a clever, kind and connected’ leader would make,” Mr McKim said.
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