A community’s leadership in action … http://www.stopthemillintasmania.com/preview/
JUST 12 months since the project to create a reference point showing people against the proposed pulp mill and forestry practice was conceived, an internet site has been completed and (although a few bugs are being ironed out) is now ready for broader distribution.
The project is part of a broader proposal to make fine quality photographic prints approximately 1.2 x 1m in size, and has been produced with support from TAP, Tasmanian Times, George and Jan Greig, master photographers Robert McMahon, Robert Blakers, Dave Groves and Leslie Niklason as well as from outstanding people including Judith King, Fiona Ferguson and Susie McMahon, Lucy Landon Lane, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Geoff Cousins.
The site has been constructed primarily for people outside Tasmania who believe that Tasmania is predominantly pristine mountain brooks; who when thinking of Tasmania think an abundance of pure drinking water, seemingly endless tracts of temperate wilderness rainforest and coastlines of numerous wine-glass bays all strung together under the shadows of poorly retouched photographs of Lake St Clair hut in spring snow. You all know the now almost dishonest tourist-magnet crap.
The intent of the website is not to malign, but to reveal a modern truth in order that interstate and overseas opinion can be balanced and not manipulated.
Importantly the site provides suggestions for action, and contains links or information on how to join/support TAP, The Wilderness Society, The Greens and other activities. Since a very soft launch in Victoria acouple of days ago, emails promising donations to TAP have been received.
The project would not have been possible had it not had the support from those who came along and said ‘this is who I am, and this is what I believe..’. It is at times like these that one realises that leadership is not a product of position – it can span entire communities. This will be the quality most needed to continue the fight, and the resource least available to those so intent on the processing of Tasmania’s core asset: itself.
As always – the key to this initiative having any effectiveness will be how many people visit the site and what they do once it’s been visited.
With that in mind, we hope all Tasmanian Times readers can visit the site, find $20 bucks to send to TAP, join the Wildos and the Greens – and send the link to the site onto all of their friends who do the same, who do the same, who do the same.
Thank you to Tasmanian Times, thank you to all those who have helped on the way – and Merry Christmas to all. Keep the faith, keep the fight – and fight on.
http://www.stopthemillintasmania.com/preview/
