May 20 2013
The deal designed to end years of protest in the forests of Tasmania hamstrings green groups, barring them from future protest. It is a dangerous precedent. By Bob Brown THE SWIFT PARROT is flying towards extinction. Yet the forest ‘peace deal’ signed between loggers and the Wilderness Society, Australian Conservation Foundation and Environment Tasmania (I(…)
May 7 2013
This news item featured on ABC Tasmania. Bob Brown is currently a Director of Markets For Change. The former leader of the Australian Greens believes green groups have signed up to a deficient forestry peace deal because they were outmanoeuvred by the logging industry. Bob Brown claims Tasmanian Greens MPs had no choice but to(…)
May 3 2013
by Richard Flanagan So Julia Gillard has declared that she wants the parties who started the so-called Tasmanian forest peace process “to do everything they can to use their abilities to silence those who haven’t gone with the mainstream consensus”. To silence. I lived with the silence of Tasmania for too many years. And now the(…)
Apr 30 2013
Acceding to Legislative Council amendments to the Tasmanian Forest Agreement legislation is a recipe for failure for all those who hoped the original deal would be an end to destructive logging and community division, Markets For Change said in Hobart today. Japanese customers of Tasmanian product were alerted last week to the gutting of environmental(…)
