Those who watched 'Outback Truckers' last night might have noticed how coupes of road accessible tall timber are getting further and further apart. The locked up timber is doing a good job cleaning the air and catchment. I have no problem with plantation timber on old farmland and that can go into the semi-artificial wood. If buyers want specialty timbers enough they can pay for helicopters to take out single trees and not bulldoze swathes of bush.

The name change from Forestry Tasmania to Sustainable Timbers provides a cautionary tale. They thought it might help confer forest stewardship certification but they didn't get it. Leave the old trees alone and stick with plantations.

"Sustainable Timbers" in Government speak ranks with "Honest Politician"

I want the Greens 'axed'.

The Greens would prefer to see native timbers die of disease, tumble down and mulch away to nothing -- rather than be considered a valuable renewable resource.

As a resident of Tasmania's North West for the past few years , it has been interesting to see the demise of The Greens in Tasmania. Outside of UTAS , Public Servants ( mainly Teachers ) and CBD dwellers , they are now irrelevant here. Their support base has shrunk to inner Hobart and Launceston. In 3 of Tasmania's multi member Seats they couldn't get up an MP , the Liberals and the ALP shared the 15 places between them . In the North-West their well known Candidate received 3% of the vote. ( Tasmania's 5 seats reflect the 5 Federal seat so the NW is BRADDON in the forthcoming Bye- Election ). When talking to friends whom are senior in the Greens on the mainland , they acknowledge that the Tasmanian Greens are in dire trouble . The Greens main campaign announcement for this Election ,fronted by Di Natale was to legalise marijuana.. that was it ! With a Parliamentary Party of 2 in Tasmania nowadays , it's a wonder that they even managed to come up with an alternative budget The ALP Opposition couldn't even do that !

Selective logging halves the number of trees felled and doules the jobs. And we've always been able to use flying foxes to lift single elected trees. As oposed t ruinous clear felling for the chipwood industry.

The greens answer to just about any lost industry is tourism and with disasterous results for both the housing market and the effluent outfall results.

As for private property laws and privacy. If any of it stands in the way of their cockeyed economic ideas? They just disregard eiher eithe or both.

It's little wonder they want the voting age lowered so they can send the next bunch of patently brainwashed morons out to vote and then have all the seats decided by daft folk who understand, neither politics our highschool economics. And or quite disengenuous manipulation of, win by any means and at any cost, preferences. Alan B.

Greens, what an oxymoron.

Spot on George , the loopy greens are at it again, calling themselves a party with only two members. This is reminiscent of when Peg Putt was the only green in parliament and she voted herself as Leader. Back then her alternative budget was to increase native forests royalties to fund hospitals and schools. Her environment policy was to ban all native forest logging!
Many will be "sad" to know that Peg in her retirement from politics became the CEO of Markets for Change (Bob Brown was on the Board) that viciously attacked the forest industry in domestic and international market places causing mass job losses in Tasmania and other states. Well the money from the shady unidentified international donors has dried up and this green front group masquerading as a charity closed its doors on 30 June 2018.