Cassy O’Connor
I agree with Pensive. There was no ‘storming’. It was peaceful, but powerful protest. With the exclusion zone ribbon between and the smashed-through World Heritage-value forest before us, master photographer Rob Blakers and I had a chat with the man from Forestry, about carbon storage and old growth … a subject on which he held an industry, rather than informed scientific view. It was a polite exchange. The female police officer was a lovely person, friendly in a very professional way, and hungry because those police officers weren’t getting a lunch break yesterday. Just doing their job in the wrong place through no fault of their own. A few young women from Still Wild, Still Threatened set about finding something for them to eat. A passer-by had given the protestors a big, fat trout caught earlier in the day up Pedder way… A local family of timber workers moseyed up to view the proceedings, then left without word or incident about ten minutes later. Those who crossed the line separating the protest from their broken forest acted only out of love, for what is being lost. There was no storming of anything in the Upper Florentine yesterday. Read more, Comment here
