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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, Communications and the Arts Committee, 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, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Willeroo Station | Comments (10)

Great Southern on the Tiwi Islands – Timber, Fear, Intimidation and a great tax dodge

May 26, 2009 – 1:07 pm

Under the Senate’s spotlight are the arrangements between the Tiwi Land Council and Great Southern, the promoter of broad-acre MIS forestry schemes on the islands that have seen vast swathes of virgin tropical savanna transformed into a monocrop of the fast growing Acacia mangium.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Indigenous land management, Northern Territory politics, Northern development, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth | Also tagged ABC News, Acacia mangium, ANU Wild Country Research and Policy Hub, Background Briefing, Charles Darwin University, Communications and the Arts, Dr Ken Eldridge, Great Southern Plantations, Inquiry into forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands, John Hicks, Marion Scrymgour, Matilda Minerals, Melville Island, NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson, NT News, Paul Everingham, Paul Toohey, PenSyl Ltd, Pentarch Forest Products Ltd, Peter Robertson, Pirntubula Ltd, Professor Brendan Mackey Director, Professor Stephen Garnett, School for Environmental Research, Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Senator Trish Crossin, Stratus Shipping Ltd, Sylvatech, The Australian, Timbercorp, Tiwi Islands, Wendy Carlisle | Comments (7)

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