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825EconomyMIS: An abject failure with no place in the future of Tasmania’s forest industry
It’s like standing in St Peter’s Square awaiting the first wisps of fumata bianca from the Sistine Chapel. The selected stakeholders continue...
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950Economy
Forestry Tasmania is the stumbling block
FT’s Managing Director Bob Gordon was recently reported in the Mercury HERE as saying, in explanation of FT’s current woes, “(w)e hit...
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1.9KEconomy
Accounting for Dummies—Lessons from the Forest Industry
The suggestion in the title is that accountants are smarter than the average. Most aren’t. Accounting is essentially about debits and credits,...
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878Economy
Nothing has changed
A prognosis of a terminal condition is always considered to be a true test for those involved. Gunns’ undertook a strategic review...
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1.0KEconomy
Gunns Through the Looking Glass
Readers of financial statements of failed and failing companies over the last few years can be forgiven for concluding that some were...
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794Politics
That’s what we need, Will
Interesting stuff, Peter. (article below, and The Randwick inclusive power-sharing arrangement, HERE) Changes are afoot. But are we failing to see the...
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833Economy
Gunns: on an expedition to discover the headwaters of S—t Creek without any Plan B
IT WAS bound to happen. The institutions growing weary of propping up Gunns, whilst seeing its share price plummeting. They’ve been too...
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914Economy
Tourism on the teat. When will it end?
The Tourism Industry? It’s always held out as the way forward. Perhaps it is. But is it immune from making unreasonable demands...
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789Economy
FEA treading water
FEA are suspended from the ASX not because they’re in the midst of discussions with their bankers, but because they are in...
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842Economy
MIS may be worthless …
HUNDREDS of thousands of hectares of managed investment scheme plantations may be almost worthless. And the fate of Gunns Forestry may be...
