Environment
Bartlett: Anti-environmentalism vintage Lennon style
John Biggs
THIS is anti-environmentalism in vintage Lennon style. Indeed, Bartlett has not met with any environmental groups since taking office. Despite the clever and kind rhetoric, Bartlett has made his position absolutely clear on the litmus test of Tasmanian politics – where you stand on environmental issues. That is the issue that crucially divides this State and that a genuinely clever and kind leader must resolve. Division is poison to a community, and backing one side of the divide against the other is unstatesmanlike. It is clever politics, as it marginalises those outside the Lib-Lab Alliance, but it is definitely not kind. As his term as Premier unrolls further, Bartlett is showing a familiar pattern: caucus decisions will go ahead whatever the evidence, whatever the public thinks. Read more, Comment here