The latest Forestry Tasmania Annual Report demonstrates the continued failure of the Liberals’ commitment to move the business onto a sustainable footing.
The Minister for State Growth told parliament that Gunns receiver and manager KordaMentha had written to him asking him to surrender the pulp mill permits.
Andrea Dawkins delivers a second reading speech for the Greens' Pulp Mill Assessment Repeal Bill 2017, discussing the history of the mill and the Act.
The so-called Special Timbers Management Plan permits logging in regional reserves and conservation areas.
On coming into office the Premier committed to not sell any public owned assets', yet a 99 year lease has been granted over 29,000 hectares of plantations.
The Premier promised Tasmanians he would not sell off their assets. He also told them his would be an open and transparent government.
The Premier has been exposed for misleading the Tasmanian people when he said in April 2014 that his government would not be privatizing public assets.
The Government has privatised 29 000 hectares of plantations for around $40 million to $55 million less than it cost taxpayers to establish them.
The Government are flogging 29,000 hectares of Tasmania's public plantation estate at a loss, and effectively sold all that land through a 99-year lease.
You have announced that 29 000 hectares of publicly owned plantation has been sold to a private company for $60 million.