NATION, STATE: Refugees, Asset Aales, Jobs, LOGGERS/FSC, LENNON ... Have your say ... 4

*Pic: Taken by a witness which Mercury says shows ex-Premier Lennon being frogmarched from the Casino …

VENT if you wish over these ABC (and Mercury) story links … and add a few of your own in Comments below (Remember to include full urls and no more than two per comment)

• Immigration detention inquiry: Government tried to cover up asylum seekers’ mental health problems, inquiry told

• Sell assets, says Tony, and we’ll give you money

• Eric hints at backdown on job applications

• Logger escapes conviction for punching protester

• Jenny Weber: Violence is never the answer: logger in court for assaulting forest protester in Tasmania

• Bryan Green: Abbott attempting to blackmail Tasmania on assets

• Mercury: Former Tasmanian premier Paul Lennon ejected from Melbourne’s Crown Casino

• Daily Mail: ‘While being wrestled out of the venue, the witness said that Mr Lennon said, ‘Don’t you know who I am’ to the guards

• Vica Bayley, Phill Pullinger: Forestry bill threatens ancient forests, FSC certification and timber markets

• Paul Harriss: ENGOs wrong on FSC certification

• Mercury: THE Forest Stewardship Council has hosed down State Government assurances Forestry Tasmania’s bid for top environmental certification is safe under revised forest policy.

• Sign the petition protesting at the government’s protest bill …

• Guardian: The Great Barrier Reef and the coalmine that could kill it