Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens today said that a report released by environmental groups exposed Forestry Tasmania as continuing in its attempts to undermine the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA). Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that the audit’s findings confirmed the Greens’ position that Forestry Tasmania must be abolished and the public forests and [...]

Paul O’Halloran MP Greens Member for Braddon The Tasmanian Greens today cautiously welcomed moves to restrict four-wheel drive access to parts of the Arthur Pieman Conservation Area, but warned that the destruction of the area would continue without funding for enforcement. Greens Member for Braddon Paul O’Halloran MP said that while it is disappointing that some previously closed [...]

Kim Booth MP Greens Forestry spokesperson The Tasmanian Greens will invite representatives from the Richard Chandler Corporation to visit Tasmania, to discuss potential investment alternatives to Gunns’ socially and environmentally destructive pulp mill. Greens Forestry spokesperson Kim Booth MP, who previously owned and operated a sawmilling and merchanting business before entering Parliament, has firsthand experience in the manufacturing [...]

Nick McKim MP Greens Leader Tasmanian Greens today welcomed Attorney-General Brian Wightman’s release of the long-awaited discussion paper on political donations reform, saying it raised hopes for a new era of accountability and strengthened democracy. Greens Leader Nick McKim said the formal consultation process is a welcome first step towards delivering a rigorous state-based political donations regime, and [...]

Kim Booth MP Greens Forest spokesperson The Tasmanian Greens said today that the Tamar Valley pulp mill’s final death notice was being prepared, with the Richard Chandler Corporation’s proposal to take control of $150 million of Gunns assets and the dilution of shareholder value through a rights issue. Greens Forestry spokesperson Kim Booth MP said the company’s announcement [...]

Paul O’Halloran MP Greens Health spokesperson The Tasmanian Greens today called for a phase-out of sunbeds in Tasmania, as an essential preventative health measure to reduce the incidence of skin cancer and melanoma. Greens Health spokesperson Paul O’Halloran MP said that the New South Wales Liberal Government had led the way by phasing out sunbeds by 2014, and [...]

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Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens today called for any legislated ban on political donations from smoking companies to be expanded to include a ban on gaming donations, similar to moves being considered by other states. Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that the long-overdue Political Donations Reform discussion paper, which is expected to be released [...]

Cassy O’Connor MP Greens Environment spokesperson The Tasmanian Greens today said Labor in Tasmania could realistically expect the ignominious honour of at least two significant species dying out on its watch unless it took meaningful action. The Tasmanian devil was elevated to endangered status in 2010. Now it is reported that the Orange-bellied parrot is teetering precariously on [...]

Paul O’Halloran MP Greens Member for Braddon The Tasmanian Greens said that the closure of Tasair was terrible news for residents and businesses on King Island, and was likely to drive up already sky-high airfares if there was no new entrant into the market. Greens Member for Braddon Paul O’Halloran MP said that the island relies heavily on [...]

Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens today said the URS Strategic Review of Forestry Tasmania Stage 1 report must be used to inform a transition to a restructured sustainable industry, starting with the abolition of Forestry Tasmania and the return of public forests and land to the direct management of government. Greens Leader Nick said the [...]

Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens today urged Attorney-General Brian Wightman to rethink his intention to stall the introduction of the promised Tasmanian Human Rights Charter. Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said a financial value cannot be placed on human rights, and that recent reports that this important progressive social reform is to be stalled on [...]

Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens responded to the release of the URS Strategic Review of Forestry Tasmania Stage 1 Report, describing it as the death-knell for Forestry Tasmania. Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that it is now clear that the public forests and land, including reserves, currently managed by Forestry Tasmania should be transferred [...]

Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Minister for Forests Bryan Green to be up front with the Tasmanian people about exactly what message he will take to Asian woodchip buyers about Tasmania’s woodchip industry. Greens Leader Nick McKim said that if Mr Green was planning to tell international woodchip customers that everything [...]

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Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens today have called for a state-based political donations scheme to be in place by the next election, in light of the millions donated to the Liberal and Labor parties in 2010-2011 by vested interests, revealed by the Australian Electoral Commission’s latest political donations figures, Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said [...]

Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens today dismissed as fanciful the Opposition Leader Will Hodgman’s proposal for an overseas wood-chip trade mission with the Premier to sell Tasmania’s unwanted native forest woodchips. Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that Mr Hodgman was being naïve if he thought that green-washing the Tasmanian timber industry would lead to [...]

Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmania Greens today said it was disappointing but unsurprising that the Tasmanian Liberal Party had received another large cash handout from their friends at Big Tobacco. Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that today’s release of the previous year’s political donations report by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) showed that the Liberals [...]

Cassy O’Connor MP Greens Environment Spokesperson The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Labor Party to help address the state’s appalling litter problem by supporting the Greens’ push for state-based Container Deposit Legislation (CDL). Greens Environment spokeswoman Cassy O’Connor MP backed calls by the Premier Lara Giddings MP for Tasmanians to get involved in National Clean Up Australia [...]

Kim Booth MP Greens Forestry Spokesperson The Tasmanian Greens have expressed deep regret at the reported loss of 40 jobs from McKay Timber in Glenorchy and St Helens, and said it was disappointing to hear industry players dishonestly blaming the situation on the Triabunna woodchip mill. Greens Forestry spokesperson Kim Booth MP said that the reason McKay Timber [...]