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Australia’s shame Part 2: Tiwi Forestry – 30,000 hectares of “bankrupt monoculture”

October 28, 2009 – 8:20 am

Senator IAN MACDONALD—What is your concern about the Tiwi Islands, from the Tiwi Islanders’ point of view? Dr Ajani—I think they have a product which is not well placed in the play that is going to unfold over the next few years as our hardwood plantation resource comes onto the market.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, The Northern Myth | Also tagged Acacia mangium, Agricultural Development and Marketing Authority, Agricultural Development Corporation, Alan Chase, Department of Infrastructure, Douglas Daly research farms, Dr Ajani Judith, Dr Bruce R. Davidson, E.J. Hosking, Great Southern Group, Great Southern Plantations, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert, Humpty Doo, Humpty Doo rice project, John McDouall Stuart, Land Clearing in the Northern Territory, Liberal Senator for South Australia, Liberal Senator Ian McDonald, Litchfield Shire Council, McGrathNicol, Minister Harold Holt, New York Times, NT Environment Centre, NT Labor Senator Trish Crossin, Planning and Environment, Senate Environment, Simon Birmingham, Territory Rice, The Northern Myth, Tipperary Land Corporation, Tipperary station, Tiwi Forestry, Tiwi Land Council, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Willeroo Station | Comments (10)

If an MIS fell in the forest…the Timbercorp & Great Southern “industry of greed” in the NT

May 19, 2009 – 5:50 pm

It is a little too early to tell what the mid-term effects of the collapse of these schemes will have on the viability of what is a valuable and useful agricultural enterprise but it remains to be seen how many of the trees that have been planted will ever be harvested – or just be left to rot in the ground.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth | Also tagged "Managed Investment Scheme", Angus Grigg, Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council, Douglas Daly, Energy Crops Australia, Great Southern Limited, Herron Todd White, Inquiry into forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands, Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan, Michael Pascoe, MIS, Northern Tropical Timber, Plantation Tropical Timbers, Queensland Country Life, Senate Environment, The ABC, The Country Hour, The Financial Review, Timbercorp | Comments (6)

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