Sue Neales, Mercury
PREMIER Paul Lennon has told federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd he is prepared to consider a new ban on logging in parts of Tasmania’s old-growth native forests. Mr Lennon made the pledge at a private meeting with Mr Rudd yesterday, held in an attempt to stop the controversial issue of Tasmania’s forests overshadowing the three-day national Labor Party conference in Sydney.
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A LENGTHY magazine article lambasting Tasmania’s “rapacious forestry industry”, “rogue corporation” Gunns Ltd and “toadying State Government” is being published today in London. The report, Paradise Razed, has been written by award-winning Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan and it is appearing in the Daily Telegraph colour magazine. It describes the recent history of the Tasmanian forestry industry, dominated by Gunns, as a saga of “greed, corruption, political cowardice and ecological catastrophe”.
