Gagged Liberals’ Forest Bill a Recipe for Corruption
In a clear signal they are afraid of Parliamentary scrutiny, the Liberals' gagged debate on their destructive and divisive logging legislation.
In a clear signal they are afraid of Parliamentary scrutiny, the Liberals' gagged debate on their destructive and divisive logging legislation.
Forests in places like Bruny Island, Wielangta, the Blue Tier, North East Highlands and the Tarkine are now under direct threat from Will Hodgman's government.
The Government has announced plans to let loggers into 400 000 hectares of high conservation value, carbon-rich forests.
The Hodgman Liberals today declared war on 400 000 hectares of Tasmania's globally significant, carbon rich forests.
Yesterday, the Federal Government silently moved the swift parrot up to critically endangered status under EPBC.
In 2015, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the swift parrot, the world's fastest parrot, to be critically endangered.
Premier Hodgman refused to promise action on the waste problem on Bruny Island before the Easter tourist rush.
It's pleasing to hear logging operations on Bruny Island will be temporarily halted in an effort to halt the extinction of the Swift Parrot.
The Greens welcome Minister Groom’s commitment to investigate whether Tasmania may apply for funding to stop logging the habitat of threatened species.