OOOooohhh It's tempting. I clicked on Post Reply.
But I won't.
OK I will.
Gunns have said repeatedly that they will not use old growth timber in the pulp mill.
We all know that they are going to burn the old growth if they cannot sell it for chips, so they can plant their plantation timber for the mill, thus not use any old growth timber in the mill.
Let the future prove me wrong.
Better still, let the future have us die of old age wondering, without an environmentally damaging, non closed-loop mill with all the shonky politics that go with it.
Somewhere between 5000 (police and newspaper) and 10000 (Green bodies and rally organisers) people gave up a lovely sunny weekend day to attend. I'm sure many of them had better things they could have been doing.
I don't like to single out, but Corvus (we are in Controversy Corner, after all), yes we the majority voted for the gov't that is there now. Doesn't stop us from disagreeing with something they are doing or not doing.
Your argument might be the majority of people voted that way, so the majority want the mill. That is where we disagree. The election was about a government for the state, not about a mill.
I voted against the mill and against the gov't. One out of 2 wrong so far.
Was I at the rally? No.
Do I have a kitchen in my house at the moment? No.
Like me, many people who would have spent the time going to things like the rally, have things to do at the moment that are more important.
There's lots of entertaining reading on this site.
http://www.plugger.com.au/news/Gunns/No kitchen? What am I doing here?
Waiting for the floor varnish to dry.
Then I'll be absent again as I have been for the last number of weeks.