After decades of brutal Federal involvement in the rape of Tasmania’s forests, the Federal Government suddenly relinquishes ‘tree control’, and outsources forest planning to a group of faceless, unelected people, many of whom don’t even live in Tasmania.
If you think this situation is bizarre you are right.
Whole dynasties of Canberra ministers unleashed RFAs and 2020 Visions on helpless 600 year old trees in a massive display of bloody-minded ecocide resembling the Iraq search for WMDs.
Suddenly, just as the ‘Global Financial Crisis’ re-aligned the Japanese wood chip market, hating trees became unfashionable.
Another faceless ghost whispered that these crimes could be reversed, but only behind closed doors by people with no names.
Somebody somewhere assembled the ‘negotiators’, and after valiantly saving Gunns from self-destruction, Geoffrey Cousins was tasked with announcing the outcome before the talks had even started.
The ‘negotiators’ were separated into two camps, tree haters and tree lovers.
Neither group had any legislative power, and neither had been elected by the public, yet their job was to ‘un-write’ all laws passed by Federally elected politicians involving Tasmania and forests.
To add to the absurdity, the ‘tree lovers’ had nothing to bargain with, and only the ‘tree haters’ had anything to trade.
Anybody questioning the stupidity was attacked by psychopaths on day release.
Being an elected member of the Tasmanian Parliament meant nothing in the new rubber room.
As if to mirror Geoffrey Cousins actual synaptic discharges, the deal came down to ‘pulp mill in return for old forests’. Eventually all the ‘tree lovers’ agreed, and the ‘decision’ was dispatched to Queen Julia, just in case she wanted to play with it before August 21.
As a Tamar Valley resident, I have a message to the suburban conservationists of Hobart and Canberra. You are the NIMBY’s because the stench and carcinogenic shit is in my back yard, not yours. As a result, you will be learning a valuable life lesson in how not to treat your fellow Australians.
Posted by Karl Stevens on his blog, West Tamar Talk, HERE at 2:21 AM
