The News Review:
- Pulp mill-related scandal brings down deputy premier
- Motorsport: Richards can’t catch Glenney in Targa
- Australian Football League
- ur greatest Boer War heroes
- ‘Young people must decide our future’
Pulp mill-related scandal brings down deputy premier
Green Left Weekly – Apr 19, 2008
6; font-size: 105%; } Pulp mill-related scandal brings down deputy premierSusan Austin Hobart19 April 2008Tasmanian deputy premier Steve Kons resigned in disgrace on April 9 following the eruption of a new political scandal for Premier Paul Lennon?s Labor government related to its support for Gunns Ltd?s planned Tamar Valley pulp mill. The April 4 Hobart Mercury reported that last July deputy premier and Attorney-General Kons had signed a document recommending to cabinet that lawyer Simon Cooper be appointed as the next new magistrate but was then ordered to destroy the document by Linda Hornsey the head of the premier?s department. The alleged reason related to Cooper?s conduct when he headed up the Resource Planning and Development Commission during the assessment process for Gunns? pulp mill project. Cooper had written a letter to Lennon that revealed that Hornsey had played a central role in ensuring Gunns was never told in writing that the project was not meeting the RPDC guidelines. Kons initially called the Mercury?s report ?pure fantasy? and when questioned in parliament on April 8 denied ever signing or destroying such a document… The whistleblower who rescued the shredded document Nigel Burch ? who was an adviser to Kons before he was sacked last month for writing a letter critical of the government ? claimed that Lennon had backed Cooper?s appointment as a magistrate so as to remove him from the RPDC. Education minister David Bartlett has been appointed as the new deputy premier but economic development minister Paul Wriedt will be responsible for the widely unpopular Gunns pulp mill project. Tasmanian Greens leader Peg Putt has called for a judicial commission of inquiry into the Cooper affair. The Tasmanian Bar Association has called for a more transparent process in appointing magistrates and judges outside of the sole control of government. In an article entitled ?Battle cry for our Tasmania? published in the April 12 Mercury novelist and environmental campaigner Richard Flanagan wrote: ?We need this rotten era to be over. We need a new politics of hope and change that is respectful of all Tasmanians rather than craven to a handful of big businesses? We need practical measures to ensure such a shameful era never happens again ? an independent commission into corruption a return to larger houses of parliament the ending of political interference in our public service statutory measures to ensure the return to proper and respectful distance between executive government and big business. ?The call for a permanent statutory anti-corruption commission has been taken up by the Greens independent MP Terry Martin whistleblower Nigel Burch and Max Bingham a former Tasmanian Liberal deputy premier who was the first head of the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission established in 1989.
Motorsport: Richards can’t catch Glenney in Targa
New Zealand Herald – Apr 19, 2008
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Australian Football League
NEWS.com.au – Apr 19, 2008
14 (74) Goals: Northern: Ellard 3 Teague 3 Hartlett 2 Ackland Colbert Joseph. Tasmania: Shackleton 2 Hardy 2 Cornelius 2 Charlesworth Gilmour Plummer Langford. Best: Northern: Ellard Iacobucci Wiggins Browne Morgan Bransgrove. Tasmania: Richter Shackleton Charlesworth Bowden Vearing Setchell.
ur greatest Boer War heroes
NEWS.com.au – Apr 19, 2008
article-tools –> April 19 2008 06:00pm TDAY we pay tribute to VC soldiers of the Boer War. And tomorrow in part 2 of our five-part series we will feature VC winners of the Russian and Vietnam conflicts. Trooper John Hutton Bisdee Unit: 1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen Action: 1 September 1900 Warm Bad Transvaal Eight Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen led by Major Eardley and Lieutenant Guy George Egerton Wylly (who also was awarded a VC in the action) was escorting a foraging party looking for cattle with Major Brooke. The group was ambushed by Boers in a heavily wooded gorge. “We were led through a narrow neck into a veritable death trap” Bisdee 30 later wrote in his diary. Six men including the two officers were wounded with Brooke’s horse bolting. Bisdee dismounted helped Brooke onto his own horse and led them out of immediate danger before mounting behind Brooke… They escaped under heavy fire. n November 13 1900 Bisdee was awarded the first VC gazetted to an Australian-born serviceman serving in an Australian unit. Biography: Bisdee who was born in Tasmania on 28 September 1869 worked on his father’s property until he enlisted in April 1900. Wounded in the VC action he was invalided home but returned the following year after being promoted to lieutenant. After the war he returned to farming until he re-enlisted in 1906 in the 12th Australian Light Horse Regiment and in 1913 was promoted to commander of the 26th Light Horse. He joined the AIF in 1915 and was wounded while serving in Egypt. By the end of the war he had been promoted to lieutenant-colonel.
‘Young people must decide our future’
Green Left Weekly – Apr 19, 2008
6; font-size: 105%; } RESISTANCE!’Young people must decide our future’Stu Harrison19 April 2008For Mel Barnes of the Tasmania-based group Students Against the Pulp Mill (SAPM) and Resistance “young people have the authority to decide our future” and they can inspire others to take action. Barnes was speaking at the Climate Change — Social Change Conference in Sydney April 11-13 on a panel with other young environment activists. Barnes recounted how the student strikes organised by SAPM have inspired others from different generations to take action against the Gunns’ pulp mill planned for the Tamar Valley in northern Tasmania. She argued that as bad forest practices and land clearing are Tasmania’s biggest contribution to greenhouse gas emissions the anti-pulp mill campaign is linked to the campaign against climate change. Simon Cunich Newcastle Resistance organiser took up the debate over strategies for winning… Barnes was speaking at the Climate Change — Social Change Conference in Sydney April 11-13 on a panel with other young environment activists. Barnes recounted how the student strikes organised by SAPM have inspired others from different generations to take action against the Gunns’ pulp mill planned for the Tamar Valley in northern Tasmania. She argued that as bad forest practices and land clearing are Tasmania’s biggest contribution to greenhouse gas emissions the anti-pulp mill campaign is linked to the campaign against climate change. Simon Cunich Newcastle Resistance organiser took up the debate over strategies for winning. “While concern about climate change is high this is not matched by a very high level of movement organisation. Because of this some activists believe we can take shortcuts to stop the climate crisis: some say we should spend our time convincing politicians of the seriousness of climate change. thers believe that small groups can act on behalf of broader communities.