Comments on: NSW top bureaucrat quits with fatigue http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/17/nsw-top-bureaucrat-quits-with-fatigue/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/17/nsw-top-bureaucrat-quits-with-fatigue/#comment-11168 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-11168 I remember meeting Ms Kruk on the way up as director of the NPWS. This was roughly about the time when Carr used parks and forests to wedge the Libs and Nats March 95 general election with his own brand of luke warm convenient green, and Kruk I presume was part of the ALP Govt consolidation of strategy phase say 96-98 before Carr re-embraced the woodchippers with 20 year logging guarantees, and now record volumes chipped (1M tonnes pa out of Eden, 2500 -3000 native forest trees PER DAY). <br /><br />Maybe she recalls a little of those days: The National Parks Association - a big non govt group here - say 5000 plus members announced last Tuesday the Iemma Rees govt want to raise revenue with 'Mickey Mouse National Parks' with more flexibility for developers, as per their media release repeated here (link cut in half):<br /><br />http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1848690/big-conservative<br /><br />-nsw-green-group-not-happy-with-disney-style-national-parks/ I remember meeting Ms Kruk on the way up as director of the NPWS. This was roughly about the time when Carr used parks and forests to wedge the Libs and Nats March 95 general election with his own brand of luke warm convenient green, and Kruk I presume was part of the ALP Govt consolidation of strategy phase say 96-98 before Carr re-embraced the woodchippers with 20 year logging guarantees, and now record volumes chipped (1M tonnes pa out of Eden, 2500 -3000 native forest trees PER DAY).

Maybe she recalls a little of those days: The National Parks Association - a big non govt group here - say 5000 plus members announced last Tuesday the Iemma Rees govt want to raise revenue with ‘Mickey Mouse National Parks’ with more flexibility for developers, as per their media release repeated here (link cut in half):

http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1848690/big-conservative

-nsw-green-group-not-happy-with-disney-style-national-parks/

]]> By: Hpj http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/17/nsw-top-bureaucrat-quits-with-fatigue/#comment-11169 Hpj Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-11169 any bets on her successor? any bets on her successor?

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