| Today the Greens tabled an extraordinary petition of 1367 signatures on behalf of the coastal communities of southern Lyons.
The hand written petition and signatures were collected in just over a month, calling for the cancellation of expansion plans for industrial salmon farming in Storm Bay. A huge congratulations is in order for that dedicated community, for standing up to protect their waters, the waters they’ve built their lives around. With exponentially warming ocean temperatures and multinational companies pushing to maximise profit, the shocking mortality event we have seen this summer will repeatedly happen, even worsen, should that expansion go ahead. Communities in the Huon and Channel are reeling from having their summer destroyed by salmon fat-fouled beaches with the full extent of the cause and effects still not transparently shared with communities. Petitioners from the southern beaches have been watching on in horror at what’s happening further south and they have drawn a red line in the sand to stop this occurring in their bays and beaches. In question time today Premier Rockliff avoided the opportunity to back community and hold the companies and Salmon Tasmania to account – the Liberals continue to hide information from the public while looking the other way as our waterways are being killed off. The Greens stand with Tasmanian communities and oppose the expansion of this disastrous industry – the question now sits with Premier Rockliff, what will it take, how bad must things get for him to pay attention to Tasmanians who want an end to this destruction of our waterways? |
State of Government Housing Unacceptable
State of Government Housing Unacceptable
Government social and affordable housing tenants have had to apply to the Residential Tenancy Commissioner to get action on unacceptable living conditions.
