This is a very clear message to the Tasmanian farming community!
Plant trees at your peril!!
This is further to my previous blog, and tells us how utterly broken and corrupt is the forest industry in Tasmania, not to mention our political system.
Government forest policy in Tasmania (and the rest of Australia) has always been about subsidising sawmillers.
It has never been about profitable tree growing.
So here we are in the 21st century still implementing 19th century policy.
And if there is any challenge to that welfare policy the forest industry will scream bloody murder from the mountain tops!
The above link to the Tasmanian Times website provides all the blood-soaked details of the current forestry drama.
As I said in my previous blog, this drama could well end up in the High Court of Australia, with the Tasmanian government facing various commercial and trade practices charges, never mind a blatant breach of the Australian Constitution, which guarantees free trade between States.
As I stated previously, the Tasmanian forest industry does not want a transparent, competitive market for forest products in Tasmania.
The Tasmanian forest industry is demanding market manipulation and price controls to ensure Tasmanian businesses continue to enjoy unfettered access to forest welfare.
The letter from the Tasmanian Forest Products Association to the Tasmanian Premier is clearly and openly demanding that the State government deliberately breach Australia’s consumer and competition laws.
The fact that the State Labor opposition openly supports market manipulation and price control tells us that the forest industry probably does not have a future in Tasmania.
Anyone who is a forest grower will be horrified by this.
Someone needs to write a letter to the Tasmanian Premier threatening to take the Government to the High Court over this whole fiasco.
In fact a Royal Commission into trade practices within the forest industry is long overdue.
Tasmanian Blackwood Growers Cooperative 
Hi Gordon, I’ve been receiving your emails for a few years now and cannot agree more with you and John Lawrence. Yes, there should be an independent investigation into forestry in Tasmania. As for going to the courts, you may have read that TWS has just initiated a case against Forestry based on their non-compliance of their own regulations. A few more legal assaults revealing the truth about forestry in Tasmania and the forestry house of cards might topple. Thank you for your activism on this subject.
https://www.wilderness.org.au/news-events/forestry-tasmania-faces-criminal-charges-after-evidence-of-illegal-logging-uncovered.
Steve Saunders