Making Brian Burke look like a paragon of virtue

Dr WARWICK RAVERTY on The Gunns Dossier: Pulp Mill Smoke and Mirrors (2)

Would you buy a used car (much less approve a giant factory with potential to make your life and home a stench-filled misery) from a company run by people like senior staff of Gunns quoted at length in the attachment?
In my opinion, they make Brian Burke look like a paragon of virtue.

I stand by what I said in March 2007, and my only regret is that I did not reach the conclusion much earlier.

The leadership of CSIRO and Scion should hang their collective heads in shame for attempting to discipline me for speaking out publicly about about the thuggery of Gunns’ staff and the litany of
lies now documented sequentially (and referenced!) in the attached document – ‘Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!’ (or company!).

For evil to prevail, all that is necessary is for men and women of good will to do nothing.

For the majority of you that supported me – you have my enduring gratitude. For those of you who attempted to discipline me – go take a long hard look in the mirror at the poor excuse for an ethical human being staring back at you!

You could also reflect on the words that you put in my disciplinary report, and I quote: ‘We are particularly concerned by your statement [during interview]
that you would breach CSIRO confidentiality again simply to protect the residents of the Tamar Valley.’

This does not quite fit with CSIRO’s mission statement about bringing economic, social and environment benefit to the Nation does it?

Nor does it seem an appropriate statement to come from the senior management of a taxpayer-funded Government Authority in my view and is the prime reason that I resigned from CSIRO.

I value my reputation as a compassionate ethical human being far too much to have it associated with such an Organisation any longer than absolutely necessary.

Warwick
paperscience@bigpond.com