Forestry

Crisis? Rehash the past

Using a smear campaign against conservationists is a transparent attempt to pass the buck. We are witnessing the usual industry and government...

Your Say: Highly offensive

Dear Senator Macdonald, I found your media release referring to people who are genuinely concerned about the consequencess of industrial clearfell conversion...

Chips too dear: Price blamed for slump

TASMANIAN woodchips are becoming too expensive for the Japanese paper industry to buy, Australia’s leading forest products economist has warned. Robert Eastment,...

Big Brother … and the pulp mill

BEFORE reality TV, George Orwell coined the phrase ‘Big Brother’ in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1948. Nineteen Eighty-Four is...

Gunns20 writ ‘unintelligible’

The ABC, 12.24pm: Court strikes blow to Gunns compo claim And, The ABC, 4.41pm: Gunns vows to proceed with lawsuit And, Brown’s...

Hello Mont

WELL-KNOWN Hobart journalist and communications specialist Bruce Montgomery has resigned suddenly from the Forests and Forest Industry Council, claiming his efforts to...

Public forest locked up

SOS members were shocked and outraged to be informed this week that Forestry Tasmania has extended the deadline for the exclusion zone...

More god-like views

Sold out!

As the smoke clears from the decision of Mitsubishi Paper Mills (MPM) to insist that woodchips supplied by Tasmania are not sourced...

Daft, inconsistent, nonsense, babble

AND off the back of a browser in the back of a truck … Community and Public Sector Union ABC Staff Union...