THE new Bay of Fires National Park has apparently missed out one key location – the Bay of Fires.
Lyons Liberal MHA Rene Hidding said the beach that Premier David Bartlett walked along barefoot on Friday was not actually within the boundaries of the new park.
He said the reason the park was created was due to international recognition of the beauty of the coastal strip.
“The only thing not in the Bay of Fires National Park is the coastal strip,” Mr Hidding said.
“Those beaches are not part of the national park, and in fact nowhere near it.”
Mr Hidding said the announcement of the park boundaries was a political exercise that had left the community divided.
Greens Denison MHA Cassy O’Connor said the park boundaries would not encourage community growth the way other Tasmanian national parks have.
“It’s a lost economic opportunity,” she said.
Ms O’Connor also said the Government had left out a section of state forest that it intended to log.
phill Parsons remains beyond salvation
January 31, 2010 at 08:43
A media stunt?. Not possible mate, we are a government of deep integrity not shallow populist moves to capture the ‘green’ vote. A National Park per election is purley coincidental. It is entirely false to claim that all the public land will become a NP, given enough elections. We’ve got mates and they need some of it too. After all where are the coastal developments to go or the fully certified woodchips to come from brother. Yours D.B.
salamander
January 31, 2010 at 10:17
This is a typical Labor decision – block community input, and look after their own interests before the people’s. What else can we expect, the system works – for them! And that is who they are working for – not us.
Garry Stannus
January 31, 2010 at 12:50
Bartlett was a stranger on the shore,
barefoot in the dark
Michelle was feeling the grit between her toes.
Did it matter that their photo op –
the beach on the Bay of Fires –
was:
excluded,
outside,
beyond or
not included?
barefoot in the Park?
the Minister for Fires
and
the Premier for the Time Being Too Long
declared a National Park:
as per usual,
Tasmanian Aboriginals
had to read about in the ‘Newspaper’.
Concerned Resident
January 31, 2010 at 18:35
We should all know by now that this gov’t do nothing that the public wants or thinks is right…if it were Gunns or FT they would have Bartlett and his cronies bending at the knee and turning somersalts to please them. The Liberals are really no better, in spite of the rubbish Will Hodgman spruiks on his TV commercial. He talks about change…bit there will be no change when it comes to Gunns and forestry.