http://www.smh.com.au/news/9812/04/text/pageone7.html The Sydney Morning Herald Tough-talking Tuckey tells Carr: axe your new parks Date: 04/12/98 By JAMES WOODFORD The new Federal Minister for Forestry and Conservation, Mr Wilson Tuckey, would oppose the declaration of any further World Heritage Areas and has warned the NSW Government that its new national parks around Eden are too big. In an interview with the Herald, Mr Tuckey said "not one more cent" of the remaining $40 million promised by the Commonwealth to assist timber industry restructuring in the Eden region would be provided unless the State Government backed away from the new parks. No money would be given until a Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) was signed off by him. Mr Tuckey has also instructed his department to report to him on a new "whole-of-forest approach" to conservation, which would allow timber harvesting in all but "icon" areas or places important for tourism. The rest of the article is available at the URL above. (Dec 5 is too late). ************************************************************************* This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." -------------------- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List As vilified, slandered and attacked by One Nation mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
