Comments on: Violence and extinction in Tasmania’s forests http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/23/violence-and-extinction-in-tasmanias-forests/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:58:09 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ailie Bruins http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/23/violence-and-extinction-in-tasmanias-forests/#comment-13288 Ailie Bruins Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13288 I recently returned from my first ever visit to Tasmania. I met these brave activists in their tree houses in the freezing cold. Later I met loggers and truck drivers worried about their jobs. Why can’t the government use loggers for conservation instead of the destruction of Tasmania’s unique and magnificent old growth forests? This divide and rule tactic overrides the public good and serves a government addicted to keeping the big end of town sweet. I recently returned from my first ever visit to Tasmania. I met these brave activists in their tree houses in the freezing cold. Later I met loggers and truck drivers worried about their jobs. Why can’t the government use loggers for conservation instead of the destruction of Tasmania’s unique and magnificent old growth forests? This divide and rule tactic overrides the public good and serves a government addicted to keeping the big end of town sweet.

]]> By: Joel B1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/23/violence-and-extinction-in-tasmanias-forests/#comment-13289 Joel B1 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13289 Sorry. You're wrong.<br />I live in Hobart and visit the Weilangta every now and then. It was clear-felled 100 yrs ago. Now there's a forest with parrots.<br /><br />GET REAL. You mainlanders who want Tasmania to be your "holiday-whore" need to get a grip on your own foul problems.<br /><br />Sydney Water tells a sad and sorry tale. More than 922,000,000 litre of RAW sewerage are pumped into the ocean EVERY DAY.<br /><br />When people complained about shit on Sydney beaches they moved the outfalls 5km further out.<br /><br />At a conservative estimate that's 500,000,000 litres of drinking water Sydney flushes every day. Plus 200 tonnes of heavy metal and 20 tonnes of organ-chlorines a year.<br /><br />What is wrong with you people. Is it too hard? Too close to home? Easier to pick on some-one else?<br /><br />Scum Sorry. You’re wrong.
I live in Hobart and visit the Weilangta every now and then. It was clear-felled 100 yrs ago. Now there’s a forest with parrots.

GET REAL. You mainlanders who want Tasmania to be your “holiday-whore” need to get a grip on your own foul problems.

Sydney Water tells a sad and sorry tale. More than 922,000,000 litre of RAW sewerage are pumped into the ocean EVERY DAY.

When people complained about shit on Sydney beaches they moved the outfalls 5km further out.

At a conservative estimate that’s 500,000,000 litres of drinking water Sydney flushes every day. Plus 200 tonnes of heavy metal and 20 tonnes of organ-chlorines a year.

What is wrong with you people. Is it too hard? Too close to home? Easier to pick on some-one else?

Scum

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/23/violence-and-extinction-in-tasmanias-forests/#comment-13290 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13290 Go to gaol, directly to gaol, do not collect logs, nor woodchips and ... go to gaol. We don't live in a vigilante lawless society yet. Just another reason why the majority of Australians are sick of their gst and other taxes going to prop up loss making loggers from Tasmania in a population 1/3 the size of western sydney. <br /><br />They trash our national forests on PUBLIC land for private profit and expect us to subsidise them while they do it with our tax subsidies. They would fit right in on Wall St with the rest of the corporate welfare junkies. That fool with the mallet would be better on the dole rather than destroy the future of this planet. Go to gaol, directly to gaol, do not collect logs, nor woodchips and … go to gaol. We don’t live in a vigilante lawless society yet. Just another reason why the majority of Australians are sick of their gst and other taxes going to prop up loss making loggers from Tasmania in a population 1/3 the size of western sydney.

They trash our national forests on PUBLIC land for private profit and expect us to subsidise them while they do it with our tax subsidies. They would fit right in on Wall St with the rest of the corporate welfare junkies. That fool with the mallet would be better on the dole rather than destroy the future of this planet.

]]> By: Bob Ross http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/23/violence-and-extinction-in-tasmanias-forests/#comment-13291 Bob Ross Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13291 The appalling management of the Swift Parrot habitat in Tasmania is a reflection of the failure of Australian society as a whole to admit that we have made serious mistakes in how we manage Australia. Whether it is the overallocation of water in the River Murray, the failure to act to stop the spread of the cane toad, or the destruction of old growth forests -- in all these and many more examples, we let our political leaders continue to fail to act decisively to correct the problems.<br /><br /> The appalling management of the Swift Parrot habitat in Tasmania is a reflection of the failure of Australian society as a whole to admit that we have made serious mistakes in how we manage Australia. Whether it is the overallocation of water in the River Murray, the failure to act to stop the spread of the cane toad, or the destruction of old growth forests — in all these and many more examples, we let our political leaders continue to fail to act decisively to correct the problems.

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