There will be a public gathering to show the Meander Valley Council the depth and breadth of concerns about their management of MIS and PAL policies in the municipality.

Where: Meander Valley Council Chambers, 26 Lyall St, Westbury.

When: 9.30am to approx 10.30am.

Go to the forum topic Meander Valley Council controlled by forest interests for opinion.

....“If the law is unjust, then access to the law is not access to justice.”  (Julian Burnside 2006)

The Pulp Mill Assessment Act 2007 should be repealed....

By Peter Henning

.....If Rudd is sincere in his belief that in modern Australia the real battle of ideas is between free-market fundamentalism and the notion that individual wealth should be balanced by social responsibility, the pulp mill is a vital test....

Peter Henning

... Another indication is that Tasmanians in the 2007 federal election voted overwhelmingly for politicians who have no concern about any of the impacts of the pulp mill on them or future generations.  They voted for politicians who have ignored all independent expertise and advice, from economists to scientists, from doctors to former members of the sidelined state RPDC, and of course they voted for politicians who have ignored hundreds of public submissions.

Introductory address by Chair, Bob McMahon at the public meeting held in the Tailrace Centre, Launceston 29/4/08 and attended by 640 people.

DEMOCRACY is the worst form of government.

“Democracy is the worst form of government……” Winston Churchill said that. He then went on to say “..except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

20-28 March 2008 EMRS poll

1000 Tasmanian adults were interviewed by telephone. Of these, 500 were from the South, 280 from the North and North East and 220 from the North West and West Coast regions.

Question 1: of five areas (listed below) which is the most important for the government to spend money? Results:

• Infrastructure specifically for the Pulp Mill 69% (692)
• Health Infrastructure and Services 16% (162)
• Education Infrastructure and Services 8% (82)
• Public Housing 5% (53)
• Water Reform 1% (11)

Question 2: of the 5 listed which is the least important for the Government to spend money? Results:

7 April 2008 EMRS poll

A survey of 1000 householders was conducted by EMRS between the 20th and 28th March 2008. Of these, 500 were from the South, 280 from the North and North East and 220 from the North West and West Coast regions.

Question: are you in favour of or against the ANZ bank funding the pulp mill? Responses:

• In Favour 29% (294)
• Against 45% (451)
• No Opinion 26% (255)

On a two answer preferred basis; in favour = 39%, against = 61%.

Source www.tapvision.info

Gidday Friends.

I write to you today to ask for you to stand tall and be counted.

We have been sold a lemon in the guise of the proposed pulp mill.

This proposed mill, if you believe the vested interests, has no inherit negative value.
All that it will consume and expel is positive for us and our planet.

Clearly this fallacy lies only in the minds of the money men and their servants.

In Tasmania there is no chance to carry the voice of the voiceless.

To this end a remarkable individual Richard Butler , a former Rowella local, has dug deep and is putting together a photographic portraiture which when completed will be touring the mainland and beyond to raise awareness of the third world effigy to greed that is being foisted upon us.

Here is an attempt to put a few figures to the cost to taxpayers of building the pulp mill. This does not include the fact that Gunns will have to service this new loan and profits head offshore to shareholders. Nor does it take into account that there will be a 15% oversupply of pulp coming on line from 47 new mills worldwide, and Gunns may have to go back to the various governments for further direct subsidies to keep afloat. The individual figures are all open to tweaking, but it does illustrate the size of the problem that we are (not) being asked to fund.

THE FUTURE