Garry Stannus
While Americans have had the sub-prime mortgage meltdown to deal with, we Tasmanians on the other hand, have had to endure a government hell bent on delivering our forests over to the timber company ‘Gunns Ltd’, which is increasingly achieving monopoly control of our forests and remorselessly logging them.
Dear Editor,
Please accept on behalf of the inhabitants of your city, my best Tasmanian wishes for this 2009 New Year to all New Yorkers. You have a great city and a ‘can do’ vitality. I wish your readers well in this coming year – Tasmanians, like Americans, are hoping for a year better than 2008.
While Americans have had the sub-prime mortgage meltdown to deal with, we Tasmanians on the other hand, have had to endure a government hell bent on delivering our forests over to the timber company ‘Gunns Ltd’, which is increasingly achieving monopoly control of our forests and remorselessly logging them.
Tasmania, that little island south of Australia, and home of the Tassie Devil, is seeing its old growth forests logged, chipped, and about to be pulped in a pulp mill to built on mammoth proportions. Please wish us well and keep your fingers crossed and hope that Down Under, we can protect this well-known fierce and growling icon, the Tassie Devil.
Finally, thanks to the boys and staff down at Miladys, in the Village, who were kind enough to let me win my first game of pool in the States, just before they showed me how the game is really played. With the spin they could put on a ball, they’d most likely do well as politicians Down-Under. I’m grateful to the gorgeous maid behind the bar (pic attached) who told the boys to take it easy on me, because I was ‘not from round here’.
Good luck to you all!!!
Garry Stannus
Liffey
Tasmania.
