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An October 2004 press release from Greens leader Bob Brown:
The giant trees visited by Mark Latham with Bob Brown last March will be destroyed within months under the Prime Minister’s forest policy, Greens Senator Bob Brown said today.
“The 83 metres high Gandalph’s Staff in the Tolkein Forest, along with the Cave Tree which can accommodate 30 people in its hollow, will be a pile of woodchips,” Senator Brown said.
“These 500-year-old trees which were given nationwide publicity when the Opposition leader visited the Styx Valley northwest of Hobart are due to be cut down this financial year, and will be if John Howard wins on Saturday.”
Well, Howard won. How did Brown’s prediction work out? Are the big cuddly trees all gone? Ask him here.
Ironically, of course, the only bastard that was cut down was Latham, a victim of the ALP forest policy.
I passionately believe that old decaying forests should be protected so that the timber industry can conduct tours to remind people of the folly of the cult of environmentalism. Maybe they can get Latham as a tour guide.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 07 13 at 10:49 PM • permalinkLatham as a tour guide - pity the innocent tourist who tries to take a photo.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 13 at 11:21 PM • permalinkLatham as a tour guide - pity the innocent tourist who tries to take a photo.
swinish - take a cigar
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 13 at 11:32 PM • permalinkilibcc - the Greenies give their ‘sensitive’ areas nice cute, media aware names every year; I mean they change every year.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 13 at 11:34 PM • permalinkOh, please. If you tell the greenies they can’t lie, you’re violating their freedom of speech, because if they can’t lie then they’ll have nothing to say at all.
Posted by P. Froward on 2006 07 13 at 11:54 PM • permalinkGod, rebase, don’t give them any ideas! Not for a forest but some cove or bay or something they want ‘protected’.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 14 at 12:43 AM • permalinkBackdoor Bob’s mentioning of it would have course prevented them from being chipped.
Just ask the Greens faithful.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 07 14 at 01:01 AM • permalinkWorried about 500 year old trees?
So too is the Qld National Parks Dept.
So worried that if a National Park has any gum trees, all camping grounds and half the tracks get closed because of “environmental issues.”
If you haven’t been out in one of these parks lately check them out, and see what I mean.
I think their brains are addled from global warming.
Instead of cutting down the rotting trunks and branches, all of which aim for the nearest camped lot of school girls to kill them with remarkable frequency, they appease the Greenies by leaving useless gum trees intact and closing off the park facilities.
Someone should tell them that by last count there were 5600 billion gum trees actually growing in Australia and that using a chain saw occasionally would not go astray.Here’s the missive I sent off to the senator for the amusingly merkin-shaped isle:-
How’s that whole devastation of the Tarkine going, Bob?
I was hoping to book a golfing holiday there, but it looks like the predictied redevelopment following a coalition victory last time’s a bit behind schedule- bloody unions, eh?
What’s the betting on a reply? Unless he wants a date…...........
#9 “well if they ain’t been chipped, i’m all for someone going and ring-barking anything still alive…. “
I hear Bob Brown is a big fan of ringbarking… or is that tromboning.
Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 07 14 at 01:29 AM • permalink# 17, i don’t want to click on that link coz i’m at work and i don’t know what i’ll find, but whatever it is, nothing would surprise me with that anally retentive clown….
and yet its still unfathomable to me how after repeated meetings in what passes for a Green’s cabinet room, sitting across the table from the raunchy s*xpot that is Kerry Nettle, that something has stirred deep down in Bob…
and i’m not talking about his stomach and the urge to do the technicolour yawn… :o)
#17- I’d say Bob’s a veritble Tommy Dorsey on that particular wind instrument- I believe he’s also a regular Benny Goodman on the pink oboe.
If music doesn’t beckon after politics, I think given his obvious taste in colours Bob’d do worse than to go into make-up, particularly brown lipstick- pleasant side-effect of the aforementioned tootling on brass.
How about we force all the members of the Green Party to live in these endangered gum tree forests- I heard that the gum trees just love to break their branches suddenly - sending death to those living under their shade.
Posted by Wylie Wilde on 2006 07 14 at 05:48 AM • permalinkGandalph? Tolkein?
Says to me the spot’s no more than 70 years old.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 07 14 at 07:11 AM • permalinkI dont think obscene phraes like “Helen Caldicott” really have a place on this blog.
Posted by Astonished on 2006 07 14 at 07:34 AM • permalinkCouldn’t they just give cute hobbity names to all those new trees in Antarctica?
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 07 14 at 07:59 AM • permalinkSubstantial gains have been made across the past few years in terms of preserving Tassie bush and ensuring that logging is sustainable. Still, hundreds of hectares of old growth forest are logged annually.
Brown is guilty of using political hyperbole. Which politician isn’t? His point about the continued destruction of the Tasmanian bush is nonetheless valid.
Seems to me that these people are not all that great at crystal-balling.
gson Sure politicians use hyperbole; politicians lie; politicians selectively quote facts to support their arguments.
Who doesn’t?
Bob Brown however is a master of all these arts but most damnably he’s a massive hypocrite. For instance - he called for pre-emptive intervention by Australia against Indonesia in the case of East Timor but of course is against the pre-emtion used against Iraq. Calls for the end of ‘secret’ (un-attributed) donations to political parties, but is quite happy for the Greens to receive most of their funding via a ‘clearing house’ of anonymous donations, the Wilderness Society. I could go on.
Fundamentally he and the Greens are undemocratic. Both in the Tasmanian and federal elections the Greens stood for the end of logging (OK, I’m simplifying, but for the sake of argument) and Labor (in tasmania) and the Libs (federally) were pro logging. In both elections the Greens won less than 15% of the votes in Tasmania and Labor and the Libs won their elections (respectively) handsomly. Yet the Greens insist that their policies be enacted.
Far from “His point about the continued destruction of the Tasmanian bush is nonetheless valid”, Brown’ point is a screeching, emotive, lying set of hyperbole and is rightly rejected by all but the nutter camp-followers (who collectively and individually need to wash more often).
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 14 at 10:39 AM • permalink#18 Unfortunately, my workplace doesn’t have strict IT rules and I clicked on the link….I now have a grotesque mental image seared into my brain….Bob Brown’s a**hole - Aaaaagghhhh! no, no ,no!!! Bob Brown IS an a**hole…Bob Brown IS an a**hole….
Damned eco-fascist!!!!Posted by March Hare on 2006 07 14 at 09:14 PM • permalink
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Chyp the Styx. I gather the Styx has been left so long it hasn’t got much life left in it anyway - most of the trees are dead or dying from lack of regeneration. Thirty years I heard.