Brilliant,Dr.Raverty!
Tasmanians have become more savvy recently in regards to selective spin. (Look at the recent TCA ads!).

I noticed that you were selectively quoted in the Georgetown submissions by the pro-mill lobby.What were they thinking? That no one would notice? Perhaps a High school education would have been beneficial to them.

Thank you for your continued interest and restoring balance to the mill argument.

It is good to hear it from the “Horses mouth”.

Dr Raverty, Thanks for setting the record straight. Your letter to the George Town Council was read out at the meeting, but the constraints of trying to get it all out in two minutes (an impossible task for all but those people who authorise political ads;  (“writtenandauthorisedbyblahblahspokenbyblah,Canberra,fortheblahblahparty”))so the gravity of what was being read was somewhat lost. Those of us in the audience who had read the “original” submission on the GTC website and your subsequent refutation knew exactly the significance of your letter, but unfortunately, it was probably lost to many in that audience.
Now that Rudd has announced his ministry, let’s see if that statement by Garrett - “when we get in we’ll change everything” - actually meant anything!

Quoting from Dr Raverty’s letter: “During my period of service on the RPDC Assessment Panel, I attempted to extract from Mr Les Baker, General Manager of Gunns Pulp Mill Project, an estimate of what quantity of odorous materials Gunns calculated would come from non-point sources around their mill. No information was provided to the RPDC on this topic. I also attempted to convince Mr Baker to conduct some simple and inexpensive experiments that would enable the RPDC to make an estimate of the probable extent and severity of fugitive odour emissions from the mill. Mr Baker flatly refused my request, claiming that the mill would not cause offensive odour. When I then asked him to provide a written guarantee to that effect to the RPDC, Mr Baker again refused.”

Yes, the spin technique used by both politicians and from corporations converge to become the same.

Assert something is true.  Refuse to provide evidence for the statement.  Keep repeating the assertion over and over again. 

In a society with a viable mainstream media such behaviour would get short-shrift quickly.  But Gunns Ltd and our major media share common corporate owners.