The Greens have shown their gross hypocrisy by crying crocodile tears about jobs while calling for thousands of Tasmanians to be thrown out of work.
Alarmed that the Hodgman Liberal Government is working to grow forestry, the Greens’ Cassy O’Connor gave notice of a motion yesterday calling for Parliament to commit to “halt native forest logging”.
That would mean putting the axe through every job that relies on the native forest sector.
This is a threat that carries real menace because of the Greens’ history of destroying jobs in the forest industry, aided and abetted by Labor.
We saw the devastating impact of the previous Labor-Green government’s forest deal on jobs and regional communities throughout Tasmania, and given a chance Ms O’Connor would seek to kill off the native forest sector.
Clearly, it offends the Greens’ ideological sensibilities to see new confidence, new investment and new jobs in forestry.
Their most recent attack comes as applications are drawing to a close for our new Wood and Fibre Processing Innovation Program.
This will provide grants of up to $100,000 to support the development of projects that use wood residues and/or agricultural plant residues to create value-added products and more jobs.
In stark contrast to Labor and the Greens, the Liberal Government is working to help grow the forest industry to create jobs – not destroy them.