The Tasmanian Government advertises and trades Tasmania and the Tasmanian Brand as the Clean Green Natural State (Discover Australia's Natural State) but fails to inform consumers of things that are hidden behind the thin rows of trees (or propaganda strips) they don't cut down in order to conceal the vandalism and disgrace, some of which is shown below. Potential visitors are being tricked into believing this Tasmanian Government propaganda, which conceals its devastating and delinquent Forestry Practices such as native Old Growth Forest genocide, native wildlife poisoning and resulting water degradation and contamination, before buying their tickets to get here. Tasmania is fast becoming labelled, "The Pretender State". The world NEWS is seeing to that. In a time when the Tasmanian Tourism Antarctic Adventure Centre in Hobart with its blow up penguins closes down because it was never an AUTHENTIC experience, thousands of tourist with deep pockets are lining up in record numbers to see the REAL thing in Antarctica. However, despite being aware of what today's discerning tourists and consumers require, the Tasmanian Government and its Old Boy mates continue to live in a time warp of the Old Boys Club by vandalising for greed (PETER CUNDALL National Press Club address) and ("greedy folks" DR. DAVID SUZUKI), what makes the brand and experience it is seeking to sell.... TASMANIA'S OLD GROWTH NATIVE & RAIN FORESTS, A CURRENT AND FUTURE WORLD TOURISM ICON. The Tarkine is an example, which is an ancient Gondwana Forest that contains the largest tract of rainforest in Australia. Authenticism and associated brand recognition as a Tasmanian tourism and forestry asset is priceless, but the Tasmanian Government is selling it off for woodchips (see the Woodchip Counter) for the purpose of its Forestry Practices which an Australian Senate Committee heard was hopelessly compromised with cronyism, corruption and negligence and had a culture of bullying, cronyism, secrecy and lies (see more below). Fair-Trading.com exposes what it sees as contraventions of fundamental Australian (s.52 Trade Practices Act) and Tasmanian (s.14 Fair Trading Act) consumer law, by the conduct of failure to fully inform potential visitors to Tasmania of the facts of non-authenticism, before they make their decision to come to or deal with Tasmania. Neither of these Acts require the element of intent, the mere fact that consumers are misled or deceived (or are capable of being misled or deceived) is enough for contravention. However, the element of intent is present as the Tasmanian Government has a psychopathic mission of the denial, secrecy and cover-up of these issues. In the normal world this sort of conduct could be termed as fraud (see some propagands rorts at the SCAM). Fair-Trading.com further exposes the businesses, associations and individuals that expressly or impliedly endorse the Tasmanian Forest Practices....
TOURISM COUNCIL OF TASMANIA (TCT) ENDORSES FORESTRY PRACTICES VIA PROTOCOL AGREEMENT
	< THIS INTO THIS VANDALISM >	FOR A WORKING EXAMPLE SEE WELD HILL
OLD GROWTH FORESTS - WORLD TOURISM  ICON		AFTER A "REGENERATION" BURN
FOR QUICK BUCK WOODCHIPS
	OR
FOR QUICK BUCK IMMATURE WHOLE NATIVE FOREST LOG EXPORT TO THE EXCLUSION OF LOCAL TIMBER WORKERS & SAWMILLERS
TO FACILITATE PULPWOOD (Woodchip) PLANTATIONS LAND GRAB FOLLOW THIS STORY AT LAND GRAB @ BUSINESS TASMANIA OR SEE THE TIMBER FESTIVAL OUTRAGE AT TASMANIA'S FOREST PRACTICES, by Graham Green, Timber Workers for Forests Inc. These logs would have grown into perfect sawlogs for the highest value timber, given another 30 or 40 years. Instead, they have been cut down before their prime to be exported by Forestry Tasmania to make plywood in South Korea and China. Tasmanian Timber Workers for Forests is outraged that the timber industry has shed 4000 jobs in the last decade yet we continue practices that are nothing more than exporting more Tasmanian jobs and exporting our future sawlog supply. The Koreans must be in awe of our stupidity as they are poised to make a whole pile of cash from our premium hardwood logs. MORE... MORE... February 16, 2004 "logs squirreled away into shipping containers to hide the embarrassing Third-World image of the log pile on our wharf" TASMANIA IMPORTS PULP FROM INDONESIA, by Geoff Law, The Wilderness Society - Tas The Burnie papermill does not even use Tasmanian logs. It imports pulp from Indonesia! It closed its pulpmill in 1998 – less than a year after the signing of the Regional Forest Agreement. (The RFA was supposed to provide security, investment and jobs.) Meanwhile, on the wharf opposite the disused pulpmill sit piles of woodchips awaiting export. And there is also usually a pile of whole plantation logs for export to Korea. That’s why the Burnie wharf epitomises both the absurdity and the obscenity of Tasmanian forestry policies. It symbolises our wasted resources and opportunities. We export our oldgrowth forests as woodchips. We replace our native forests with plantations. We export our plantations as whole logs. We close a pulpmill. We then import pulp. Can it get any sillier? MORE... AND IT EVEN GETS DARKER While THOUSANDS march against the VANDALISM, the Forest Practices continue. "Frustration has brought people of all backgrounds together whether as a result of the deaths of pets and wildlife from 1080 poisoning, water supplies having been fouled, scenery and lifestyles being destroyed or their foundations rattling from the non-stop rumbling of log trucks past their front doors," - Mr. Peter Pullinger ~ Walk For Change 4th October 2003. "The only people who support the Tasmanian Forestry Practices are those with vested interests" - Mr. Peter Cundall ~ Walk For Change 4th October 2003. 1080 POISONING "Yes, and as we walk along the edge on a narrow vehicle track, around this huge clearfell area, we found these blue carrots chips, every 10 metres apart ... this is really true, it made the whole family very sad as this was the poison [1080] to kill the native animals. The day in Nature was ruined, we where all shocked, how can Tasmanians allow this to happen ??" MORE... WATER QUALITY for TOURISM TYENNA RIVER 1080, Glyphosate, Oust, Simazine, Verdict, Lontrel (clopyralid, which is chemically related to 2-4-D and picloram), EucMix, Brushoff, Dominex, Dimethoate, Atrazine, are some of the Forest Practices chemicals. Where do you think they end up after they have done their deadly deeds.... in the water, and yes, that includes DRINKING WATER. Tasmanians are told by politicians that it is safe. But it is common knowledge that a majority of Liberal and Labour Australian Politician's are serial liars. Glyphosate has been recently BANNED in Denmark (MORE) because it is contaminating water supplies, critics say glyphosate causes cancer. THIS COUP in the Styx Valley is an example where chemicals are used, see the stream that has been vandalised which is due to be poisoned. Wouldn't YOU want to drink water that was not contaminated with poisons in the first place!! AT LAST SOME TRUTH ... "Our clean-green image certainly loses credibility when you have tourism operators having to inform visitors that they cannot drink the tap water," Jeremy Rockliff ~ Liberal Party ~ 9 October 2003, Hobart Mercury TYENNA RIVER CONTAMINATION Tassie water warning ~ 28 December 2003 ~ SUNDAY TASMANIAN A Cry From The Heart ... our nightmare [TASMANIAN TIMES] "The local newspaper reported on our contamination experience. But the story downplayed the dangers that were presented to our community by the presence of Simazine in our drinking water. The article failed to mention that the contamination was picked up by accident. It failed to say that the levels were over three times that accepted by the World Health Organisation. No reference was made to the fact that no-one knew what the ORIGINAL levels of contamination were. Nor did the paper highlight the refusal of the Department of Environment to extend the monitoring of drinking water to the rest of the region nor test for the entire range of pesticides that could also be present in our rainwater tanks". ..... DIRECT TO THE STORY..... WATER QUANTITY for THE FUTURE WATER CATCHMENT South Esk River NE TAS While Australia suffers rotations of drought and flood, Tasmania's water availability from its traditional low rainfall especially on the mid and eastern regions is under its most serious threat of all time because of the water hungry monoculture woodchip plantations replacing the mature old growth and native forests in the water catchment areas. What is the outlook for the future of water quantity...... "WE WON'T HAVE ANY" - says Dr. David Leaman, Hobart-based geohydrologist with 40 years' experience ~ Walk For Change 4th October 2003. "HAVING to tell tourists that they should not drink the water was far from an ideal way to promote Tasmania's East Coast" - Sunday Tasmanian 2 November 2003. "THOUSANDS of Tasmanians risk getting sick simply by drinking their tap water" - Sunday Tasmanian 2 November 2003. QUESTIONS at the GUNNS Ltd AGM on possible CLASS ACTIONS against the company if it was found that drinking water had been contaminated by chemicals sprayed in the company's plantations and the second was on possible effects on the plantation business if investors were required to pay for the water used by plantations ~ CRIKEY.com.au AT THE AGM AND the WATER VANDALISM GOES ON and ON Dr. David Leaman ~ Hobart Mercury, 24 November 2003 THE PRETENDER STATE ~ Esk Water Catchments ~ WATER CATCHMENT / SLIDE MONOCULTURE MATCHSTICKS ~ Esk Water Catchment INVESTMENTS 4 CORNERS interview Dr. David Leaman 21 January 2004 • 4 Corners LORDS OF THE FORESTS WATER SUPPLIES AT RISK: expert 18 February 2004 LOG TRUCKS FLOODING THE ROADS Drive-Tasmania.com OR TAKE YOUR PICK OF A LOG TRUCK STORIES Because of the culture of cover up of Tasmanian forest practices, log truck accidents are rarely reported and statistics are very hard to get hold of. The word accident is not used by the industry, code words or numbers are used instead. Log trucks are notorious for tipping over and drivers are pushed to the limit to meet industry demands and oppression. The person who took some of the pictures at Drive-Tasmania.com was threatened with very real physical violence. REGIME TO QUASH FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SHOOT THE MESSENGER FOREST activist Neil Smith, known as “Hector the Protector” is to go to jail (the infamous Risdon Prison) for refusing to pay a $5,000 fine the result of a Liberal Party draconian Tasmanian Law. All he did was protest in a tree!! SEE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS - UK HELP NEEDED HECTOR'S FINAL DAYS OF FREEDOM • Hector is to be freed!!! HECTOR GOES TO JAIL FOR 51 DAYS MERCURY REPORT • PICTURE-1 • PICTURE-2 Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society TAKE ON HECTOR'S JOB..... SEE THE WEBSITE FOR BREAKING NEWS AND PICTURES OF THE CAMPAIGN - Global Rescue Station SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DISCOVER TASMANIA EXPOSES FOREST PRACTICES IN TASMANIA? It gets called a LIAR a CHEAT and a FRAUD. SEE THE ARTICLE WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF A SUPREME COURT DEFAMATION ACTION and DISHONEST, DISGRACEFUL and DECEITFUL SEE THE MEDIA RELEASE OF HON. HIDDING, HIDING IN PARLIAMENT GETS SUED IN THE WIPO (GOVERNMENT LOST) DIRECT TO WIPO DECISION AND COMMENT FROM The Honourable BRETT WHITELEY Liberal MHA Tasmanian Parliament (Shadow Minister for Police), in regards to an attempt to gag and interfere with the freedom of speech and legal rights of the publisher of this website, and Discover-Tasmania.com and Discover-Tasmania.com.au "I direct your attention to section 70 of the Criminal Code which warns against hindering a member of parliament from doing his / her job. I think jail sentences apply." AND HERE'S THE RUB Forestry Tasmania criticised at Senate committee ~ Reproduced from ABC NEWS report 9 October 2003 A former Tasmanian forestry employee has given evidence to a Senate Committee in Canberra criticising the state's logging industry. Bill Manning, a former auditor with the Forest Practices Board, said his old employer is "hopelessly compromised" by an industry riddled with cronyism and corruption. A forester of 32 years' experience, Mr Manning's explosive evidence to the Senate hearing painted Tasmania's forestry industry as largely unsupervised and unregulated, negligent and subject to corruption. He told Senators standards were dropping and that the regulatory framework is in "freefall". He said sources within Forestry Tasmania had told him bonuses were paid in exchange for forest practices plans favourable to loggers. "Senior staff involved in management of the plantation industry have been paying bonuses relative to maximum areas logged and thus woodchip-generated," he said. The forestry industry culture he said was one of "bullying, cronyism, secrecy and lies". He also alleged the chief forest practices officer instructed subordinates not to make him aware of breaches in more than 80 forest practices plans until time had elapsed for their prosecution....... When an exasperated Mr Manning finally tried to prosecute Forestry Tasmania, his charge books were taken from him. He was shifted elsewhere in the public service...... THE MELBOURNE AGE The nightmare began when he alleged Forestry Tasmania had breached the Threatened Species Protection Act, the Forest Practices Act and the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act............"Within two weeks, the chief forest practices officer had demanded my notice books withdrawn. My authority to lay complaints under the Forest Practices Act was withdrawn as well." Mr Manning said the person stripping him of his power was FPB [Forest Practices Board] chairman, Ken Felton. Mr Felton is an executive director of Forestry Tasmania...... THE SUNDAY TASMANIAN Senate committee hearings TRANSCRIPT OF ABOVE MATTERS PDF - 450k Some evidence PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOREST PRACTICES SCANDAL: GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY MUST ADDRESS THE CLAIMS Peg Putt Greens MHA - Media Release forest practices despots are protected from Senate scrutiny by Tasmanian government mule - HOBART MERCURY OPEN LETTERS THAT TOURISM TASMANIA and the FOREST PRACTICES BOARD HAVE REFUSED TO ANSWER Open Letter to the Board of Tourism Tasmania  •   Open Letter to the Forest Practices Board GET A WHOLE LOT MORE AT DISCOVER TASMANIA SEE WHAT SOME SAY FEEDBACK DISCOVER TASMANIA NEWS McGunns by GUNNS LIMITED

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