The Tasmanian forestry industry is out for the count. But it is taking $1 billion in taxpayer dollars with it, writes Tasmania-based freelance writer John Lawrence.
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How your taxes bailed out insolvent timber giant Gunns
Gunns might have been trading insolvent when it took $23 million from the federal government for its non-existent pulp mill, writes Tasmanian economist and analyst John Lawrence at Tasmanian Times.
READ MORETas forests deal unpacked: the story behind the numbers
A deal to end the Tasmanian forest wars will soon go before state Parliament. Tasmanian-based accountant and former economist John Lawrence crunches the numbers and poses some pertinent questions.
READ MOREPulped: Gunns’ Tassie mill is finally dead
The Greens tread a fine line in claiming their third victory in Tasmania. Though there seems little doubt Gunns’ proposed pulp mill is dead, writes Bruce Montgomery.
READ MORESmoking Gunn: John Gay and the timber giant’s rise and fall
John Gay was not at the helm of Gunns as it sank into administration yesterday. But his fingerprints are all over the rise and fall of the once-mighty timber giant.
READ MOREFlanagan: Gunns’ demise lifts a darkness over Tasmania
It was Gunns’ greed-at-all-costs attitude that destroyed its public reputation and ensured its financial demise, according to Richard Flanagan. The company and its planned pulp mill had gone rogue.
READ MORE$10b in write-downs signal back-to-the-future reporting season
It’s a welcome to a re-run of 2008-09, judging by the huge write-downs emerging this reporting season from some major companies.
READ MORETrouble at mill … is Gunns’ pulp plan dead?
Gunns has announced it no longer believes its seven-year plan for a Tasmanian pulp mill is “probable to proceed”. John Lawrence, an accountant and former economist, asks what went wrong for the once-mighty forestry giant.
READ MOREWhat’s in a name? Gunns considers a change
Gunns Limited has conceded it is considering a name change, writes Myriam Robin, of LeadingCompany.
READ MORERace to find financier as Gunns pulp mill faces facts
Tasmanian timber company Gunns’ proposed $2.3 billion Bell Bay Pulp Mill — still reeling from the withdrawal of a key financier — could be facing an uncertain future at the hands of throat-cutting global competitors, a major industry conference has heard.
READ MORESuper Thursday for AGMs with Gunns and Woolies in firing line
The AGM season formally finishes next Wednesday, November 30, and the final days will feature the traditional avalanche of penny dreadful gatherings, most of which will be missed by the media.
READ MORESeeing the ocean through the trees in Gunns debate
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREMinister: Gunns quit logging ‘because the market forced it to’
Stephen Mayne is wrong. Gunns does not have “a strong environmental story to tell”. It has been the author of an epic Tasmanian tragedy, a tale that has reduced good people to tears, writes Greens MP Cassy O’Connor.
READ MOREMayne: Gunns believes pulp mill approval is inevitable — as it should be
Tasmanian forestry giant Gunns is working flat stick on its $2.3 billion pulp mill project. While the mainstream media has left the impression the project will fall over, there is a sense of inevitability on site that it will ultimately be delivered.
READ MORETassie forests deal like a Gunn to the head
The ultimate peace deal to end the 40-year war in Tasmania’s forests is dead in the water, writes political journalist Bruce Montgomery from Hobart.
READ MOREFairfax, BlueScope and Gunns should have declared much bigger losses
The biggest week of the annual reporting season is drawing to a close and some companies are hacking into their balance sheets like the GFC days.
READ MOREMayne: where to for Gunns, logging and the pulp mill?
Shares in the financially struggling Tasmanian timber giant Gunns remain suspended ahead of Monday’s profit announcement and the ongoing clifftop poker around exiting old-growth logging and financing the $2.3 billion pulp mill.
READ MOREGunns’ pulp mill: in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Gunns Ltd’s pulp mill has paralysed and poisoned Tasmania’s public life and private life, even divided towns and families, writes Lindsay Tuffin, of Tasmanian Times.
READ MOREWhy Gunns is teetering in Tassie
What company has received $500 million in cash from the issue of new shares over the past three years but only has a market value of $300 million? asks accountant John Lawrence.
READ MORETasmania’s political alliance won’t be pulped — but the people smell a con
Before Tasmania’s highly contentious pull mill is built, friendships will be tested, political alliances between Labor and the Greens at state and federal level will be stretched to the limit (though not ruptured). And the people will revolt, writes Bruce Montgomery in Hobart.
READ MORESue Cato spins for Gunns, not that Q&A let on
Q&A defends itself against allegations of impropriety in the wake of an appearance from Gunns spin doctor Sue Cato on Monday night’s program.
READ MOREGay, Gunns and logging — just what nobody wanted to talk about
Gunns chair John Gay is fighting back days out from an election. His bid to fend off concerns over corporate governance issues is a pivotal development in Tasmanian environmental politics, writes Bob Burton.
READ MORESaving Gunns … billion dollar Toll … where you should live
Time for a bailout, there’s an election in Tasmania and one federally this year and the biggest flashpoint in the state is Gunns’ pulp mill. Plus, paying the toll at Toll and RBA watchers pay attention.
READ MOREHow a drunken prank became a major political story with flare
How a minor drunken prank escalated into a major Tasmanian political story may be as good as topic as any to kick off the journalists union’s Future of Journalism forum in Hobart on Thursday night, writes Bob Burton.
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