BEN QUIN
THE Mercury’s editorial published on their website on 4th June highlights the need for an unfettered commission of inquiry into the pulp mill approval process.
If that newspaper’s opinion has been properly formed that “the unremitting pulp mill assessment process saga and all the ensuing scandals and controversies have consumed departments”, then I am surprised that their editorial did not conclude by loudly making such a call.
The point is, our State has been derailed by the fast track affair. Public trust went out the door of Parliament on the day the pulp mill assessment act was made law. Our bureaucracy has been consumed and debased in the process as well.
There is no evidence that Mr. Bartlett has been able to extract his government from the web of deceit that has entrapped them since they rigged the fast tracking process. Tasmania cannot go on like this. How much longer before we clear the air, so that our State’s bureaucracy can get on with the job, led by Ministers with a clear vision and a clear conscience.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Quin
Triabunna 7190
