Mark, I have put up with the lies, half-truths and misrepresentation from the Greens since 1967. Way back then ACF policy was to close native forests to harvesting. Nothing changes.

I like your reference to woodchipping but it could be improved on.
The public need to understand that "evil woodchips" are produced as a legitimate harvesting product. Let me elaborate.

The very best of native forest and plantation runs at about 1 of sawlog to 1 of below sawlog quality - normally woodchips. Assuming a 50% recovery of sawlog, woodchip now constitutes approximately 75% of the tree and is used for a range of common and accepted products - sawn timber, paper, MDF etc. A simple message needs to be conveyed to the public. I wonder if there is a journo or two out there with the brains to wake up to the Greens ajenda and depict them for what they really are - a bunch of troglodytes.

Good stuff Mark. Keep it up.

Don Thomson

The Greens are not green at all.

They are green on the outside as the Fabian wolf is clothed in a sheepskin.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/FabianWindow-1.jpg

The Greens are Fabian Socialists..by deed if not by membership.

Gillard is one
Plibersek is one
Whitlam founded them in Australia
Hawke and Keating were members

Bob Brown ? don't know but if deeds are an indicator....

http://www.openaustralia.org/senator/bob_brown/tasmania

Brown wants GLOBAL GOVERNMENT.... hmmm rather like "International Socialism" does..... strange eh.

Anyone who works toward the undermining of Australian indepenance and sovereignty is a traitor and should be treated as such.

It's called 'SEDITION'.

Climate change is a real and dangerous threat to our planet. The Greens (and the Australian media at large) akin sustainable native forestry to the deforestation occurring in developing countries that result in such enormous amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere, despite forestry being the antithesis of land clearing and deforestation. We live in a global community and a have an obligation as a developed country to continue to created renewable, carbon positive products for consumers, whilst managing our forests to continue to grow inperpetua.
The misrepresentation of sustainable native forestry by the Greens and the media does a disservice to curbing climate change and is not aligned with the broader international community.

Guardia

Tyranny does not care about the 'broader international opinion'.....

Many people talk of the Red/greens as being watermelons, green on the outside & "pinko" commie on the inside. I prefer to think of them as Unripe Guavas, green on the outside & dark red, bitter & twisted on the inside.

I saw its formation & they were all well known CARS, Communist, Anarchist, Radical, Socialists.

I have been on debate forums with them online & in person. They always had no ideas about what positive could be done, only about what to stop, all progress & jobs.

Whether it be water or forests, the stony ideologues in the Greens care nothing for the living, breathing people who are merely inconvenient, bothersome stumbling blocks on the road to a Green utopia.