Poor old Aunty ABC! No matter which way she goes, those who disagree will find a 'hidden agenda', or a 'left wing bias'or even a
right wing slant'. Now it seems the driving force is the previously unheard of group called the 'inner urban greens' - whoever they may be. Perhaps the ABC simply calls the shots as the facts indicate in accord with its charter - it would then be no surprise that the worst and most incompetent prime minister this country has ever had the bad judgement to elect consistently comes out looking exactly as he is - a total fool completely out of his depth, with a cabinet to match. However, my comment must be taken in its appropriate context - that of a far-outer-urban-but-close-to-a-large-population-center-sometimes-left-sometimes-right-non-creationist-elderly-informed-physically-fit-pension-income-dependent-gay-accepting-well-travelled-male. I am thinking of forming my own party - however I cannot find any other members who meet the criteria.

FACTCHECK..IS A SCAM
to begin with who collected/collated THE RAW DATA
once we accord fail safe..faith in anything..it become perverted

and its not just because they ignored my pleas
to reveal the truth behind smoking statistics
who do have medical costs of 800 milion
but not the social cost..of 32 billion
but thats how much they need to steal from us..to make up the bugeted shortfall

abc is scum
floating the boat of the faithfull
sell/the dam thing..put the archive in full on line
OR MAKE IT INTO A TRAINING SCHOOL..THAt has students given airtime according to the quality of theIR WORK.[AS CHOSEN BY US ABC DIEHARDS].SELECTING THE LIVE/PROGRAMING..LIVE..ONLINE

GET RID OF THE FAT-CATS
PUT THAT INTO INVESTAGATIVE PROGRAMING

LEVERAGE THE BASE..talent..to exibit their wares
sell it to the highest bidder..plow the cash back into product
HALF THE STAFF 4 TO OINE STUDENT TEACHER RATIO..[THE ABC AND SBS SOLD US OUT LONGAGO

ITS TIME TO SELL OFF THE SELLOUTS
YOU CAN BUY The drama..but the rest belongs to us all
out takes miss takes the lot is put on line.its the collection of the histrory..i want kept ..NOT THE CENSURE OF THE STARS...MEDIA HAS SOLD US OUT

ITS TIME WE TOOK THEM OFF THE PUBLIC TEAT
AND USED THE ASSET TO NURTURE THE TALENT NEEDING THE TEAT

Have to agree, that the area under de-listing consideration is not wilderness!
It's the greens who have as usual, been the ones needing some fact checking.
Indigenous poeples have for millennium, been selectively harvesting their forests, with only benefits, to both flora and fauna, some of which are also hunted for food!
It really is time, the tiny minority that is the green movement, pulled their collective heads in, and stop acting as if the forests were their exclusive domain.
It is not your tree or my tree but our tree!
And the last time I looked, a democracy, was for the people, by the people and of the people!
Not a tail wagging the dog, raggedy ass protest movement, which is so full of inherent contradiction, to be literally incomprehensible!
At the end of the day, the only people, with the power to veto logging in particular parts of our forests, should be the Original custodians, which the green movement have routinely ignored, with their lock it away and leave it mentality, or their wild rivers idiocy.
I mean, where do these cloud dwellers get off, assuming they have a right to dictate their incoherent, I'm all right Jack, ideology to anyone?
And how many lives and or property could we have saved, simply by ignoring their wish list and cracking on with essential dam building or selective logging, which brings roads, (fire breaks) and many more eyes into the forests.
And grazing in national parks etc, reduces dangerous fuel loads, which in turn help reduce the risk of uncontrollable wild fires, that can and do, destroy hundreds of thousands of hectares; and, which simply don't have any respect for endangered species, or sphagnum moss!
Most of which could still be protected, by small fenced off enclosures!
Rhrosty.

Mark Poynter is still trying to justify the trashing of old growth and not so old growth forest in the interest of big business.
In the process he also has a slash at the ABC also a target for the Murdochracy and Abort. Oh I forgot the Greens are having their usual shellacking as villains.
It all comes back to the hard fact that FT has had the monopoly of the Tassie forest provided for free and has never managed to make it pay.
Instead it has held out it's hand for more subsidies to prop up this dinosaur industry, when it can never compete in the market they are aiming for, the chip and pulp export market.
Offshore pulp and wood chips are so competitive to a local product that it can only be a way of syphoning off subsidy payments into the murk of the forest that continues this push to breathe life into it.
Whatever your aim is in this attempt to justify Abbotts misguided interference. please give up and leave the forest to recover.

It is obvious that the ABC Fact Check Unit can't see the wood for the trees.

The ABC and it's sycophants are as dense as two short planks of milled and dressed native timber.