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Michelle O’Byrne with Premier Giddings. Pic: Rob Walls http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ and http://thisworkinglife.wordpress.com. Pic: ©

I remind my fellow readers that Tasmania HAD a Department of the Environment, until David Bartlett/Michelle O’Byrne dismantled it.

She is still in cabinet.

Do I recall correctly that her brother David took the portfolio from her?

Now Brian Wightman has it. In these Olympian days, are we meant to celebrate that ours was the first government in the world to abolish a Department of the Environment?

The Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 established the EPA. (Environmental Protection Authority) …

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