Logging in High Conservation Value Forests
The reason Tasmania's emissions profile looks as good as it does is in significant part due to the work of the conservation movement.
The reason Tasmania's emissions profile looks as good as it does is in significant part due to the work of the conservation movement.
The Premier today dealt young people another slap in the face with confirmation 356 000 hectares of forests will be opened to logging.
The Hodgman Liberals remain committed to logging 356,000 hectares of forests that were set aside for protection under the Tasmanian Forest Agreement.
This motion is nothing more than positioning and politicking. It is riddled with untruths, as was Ms White's speech on the motion.
There is a sickness and a rot at the core of the Labor Party federally, and in Tasmania.
Treasurer, I do not have a handkerchief big enough to mop up the crocodile tears you just shed for the children of forest workers.
In 2015, the first FFC audit was handed down and it found that Forestry Tasmania was critically non-compliant in a number of areas.
Your Budget paints the bleakest of futures for young Tasmanians. It is a budget devoid of what most young Tasmanians needed to hear from their leader.
This week a very hot bushfire at Dolphin Sands on the east coast started from an out-of-season planned burn-off.
The breathtaking hypocrisy of the Liberals talking up Tasmania's lower emissions profile cannot go unanswered.