In the Mercury the story is that Gunns are putting in a bid for Great Southern assets if they can find someone to put up some collateral in a joint venture. I don’t know if this is the same story or that Gunns appear to be so confident and flush with money that can take over the entire timber assets of all the failed MIS schemes in Australia?

Every one of these has only survived on political largesse, tax breaks and subsidies, and now all this is for sale at bargain basement prices. Gunns collars the lot, complete with all the taxpayer money that has propped them up over the last decade. It is these corporations that are responsible for the PAL Act and all that that entails, which deprive the Tasmanian people of their basic rights, converts our forests and farms to plantations and destroys so much of the essential Tasmania.

Their greed knows no bounds, and now we have our own government members ignoring their duty to the people and using our precious money to dash off to Europe to spruik for this private company that is interested in nothing but the profits they can make by stealing our assets and turning them into short term gains.

WHEN WILL THE PEOPLE STAND UP AND SAY, ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’?