The Greens have condemned this morning’s intense operation to remove peaceful protesters from defending the ancient forests in takayna\/Tarkine from being flattened for a proposed toxic tailings dam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis smacks of cynical politics \u2013 it looks to me like another attempt to inflame a long-standing environmental battle in takayna\/Tarkine by the Government for its own self-interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMorrison can see that he is on the nose with Australians \u2013 they don\u2019t trust him and can see through his spin. He\u2019s desperate, resorting to divisive culture wars as a vote-winning strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAustralians see the true value of these forests and that they are worth more standing, but the Liberals are only interested in divisive rhetoric to try and salvage votes in a marginal electorate they desperately need to win to have any hope of retaining government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf our so-called Environment Minister was doing her job properly then MMG should have been prosecuted for breaching federal environmental law when it commenced works in threatened species habitat \u2013 including that of the masked owl – illegally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInstead Minister Ley is more interested in using the environment as a political football than actually looking after it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf this Government thinks that sacrificing our threatened species habitat and aggravating an environmental battle to maintain votes is going to win the hearts of the people of Braddon then she\u2019s clearly not been paying attention to what\u2019s happening on the ground down here in Tassie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople are increasingly aware of takayna\/Tarkine\u2019s significance, and the Government\u2019s short-sighted treatment of it, and we will not stop in the fight to protect it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens are ready to work alongside the community to protect takayna\/Tarkine from any profit-hungry destruction MMG thinks it might be able to get away with under the watch of this reckless Government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201ctakayna\/Tarkine is home to Australia\u2019s largest temperate rainforest, full of First Nations sites of significance and enormous ecological value. It is a unique place that needs protecting from the threats of logging, mining and other industrial activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen we kick the Liberals out, the Greens will push to secure protections for takayna\/Tarkine and all Tasmania\u2019s incredible forests.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have condemned this morning’s intense operation to remove peaceful protesters from defending the ancient forests in takayna\/Tarkine from being flattened for a proposed toxic tailings dam. Greens senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0 \u201cThis smacks of cynical politics \u2013 it looks to me like another attempt to inflame a long-standing environmental battle in … Continue reading “takayna\/Tarkine blockade bust condemned\u00a0by Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16138,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137\/revisions\/16138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}