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Nothing to do with forestry
And in such a cowed society, the government often gives the impression of being little more than a toadying standover man for its corporate godfather, willing to undertake any action, no matter how degrading, to help those with the real power.
In 2004, after a farming couple and their water source were directly sprayed by a helicopter with poisonous atrazine meant for the Gunns plantation next door, the then water minister Steve Kons drank a glass of the atrazine-contaminated water from their supply at a media conference to reassure the public. Kons is now deputy premier.
EXTRACT from Paradise Razed, by Richard Flanagan, UK Telegraph, June 2007
Dave, with link to Richard Flanagan’s UK Telegraph article, Paradise Razed