Another day, another Labor position on Triabunna.
Bryan Green’s policy-lite status was confirmed in Parliament this morning and it looks like he’s now come full circle on what to do with the mess he created at Triabunna.
First, Bryan Green stood by and watched as one of the State’s most strategic forestry processing facilities was sold off, shut down and ripped up for scrap. He said at the time that there was nothing he could do and it was out of his hands.
After the election, Labor said that the Triabunna port should be sold to developer Graeme Wood to complement his proposed tourism development at the former mill site.
Now Mr Green is saying that the Government should have interfered in an independent sale process conducted at arms-length of Government by TasPorts, and instead sold the port to the forest industry to enable it to be used for woodchip exports!
After Bryan Green all but destroyed the forestry industry hand in hand with the Greens, he’s got a lot of nerve to pretend to be defender of the forestry industry.
His track record condemns him and we are now picking up the pieces and rebuilding the forestry industry in his wake. We’re not going to be lectured to on forestry policy by a man who almost single-handedly destroyed the industry in less than four years.
Paul Harriss, Minister for Resources
