Issue Nos. 3-4 December 02 - January 03
Why are real thinkers and achievers ignored?
Philip Brooks died recently in Spain ...
his passing virtually unnoticed in his Tasmanian home state. Why? asks KATHY BARNSLEY.
Courageous, fearless, committed
Philip Brooks, international documentary filmmaker, born Tasmania 2nd July 1953, died Spain, 6th January 2003.
A TRIBUTE
A
Prayer for Preservation
The spin is dizzying ... and the questions
just keep coming. John Gay, boss of Gunns, the nation's biggest woodchipper, has
authorised TV ads lauding Tasmania's wonderful track record on caring for
Tasmania's old-growth forests, using former newsreader Steve Titmus as
everyone's-nice-cup-of-tea front man. And there have been some interesting
statistics floating about as well, not least the revelation that Mr Gay earns
$686,000 a year plus bonus options while Deputy Premier Paul Lennon continues to
defend the jobs of forestry workers who, he says, earn as little as $25,000 a
year. LINDSAY TUFFIN reports.
The
God of Tall Things
The religious dimension of Green politics has
been around a long time ... as this LINDSAY TUFFIN interview with Rev
Lance Armstrong, first published in The Sunday Tasmanian in October 1990
reveals.
Nature
Writing Prize
A new nature writing prize has been announced for
Tasmania.
Are
You Happy As It Is?
Citizens have lost much of their real power as
the location of decision-making has shifted from the local and national to the
global, writes DUNCAN KERR MHR exclusively for the Tasmanian Times.
Days
of Dissent
Environmental wood sculptor PETER ADAMS is
disturbed by 10 Days on the Island Festival artistic adviser Robyn Archer's
assertion that there were "nil" signs of dissent against Forestry Tasmania
sponsorship of the festival. He wrote a hard-hitting response to The Australian.
It is yet to be published. Here is an edited version.
Come
In, Spin Doctor
Eight per cent of Victorians are losing $2 billion a
year on the pokies, writes researcher and author JAMES DOUGHNEY, who
claims that State's Government is now living off immoral earnings.
LAST
MONTH
HAVE YOUR SAY