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By: mrbigshot_1
5/12/2007
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Does anybody else remember a news report a couple of years ago involving a grubby little incident in Tasmanian Parliament house in which Justice Minister Steve Kons imagined he'd seen Michael Hodgman MHA sexually harass a female staff member in parliament and brought it up in parliamentary business. As I recall his disgracefull behaviour was backed up by that other most hated member of parliament, Lara Giddings. This incident said a lot about Kons, but it did atleast seem to show he had an interest in sex crimes and seeking justice for them.
Fast forward a couple of years and there are now atleast three REAL LIFE SEX CRIMES that have not received proper justice here in Tasmania. Many people on the North west coast know about a 16 year old that raped a couple of elderly women in Devonport and will receive only a couple of years jail and his identity hidden from the public. Tragically an innocent man named Peter Wasinski was incorectly charged with the crime and underwent a horrific ordeal before the real perpetrator was identified. As you may know Mr Kons and the Tasmanian police Refuse to seek proper justice against the real perpetrator and officially apologise to or compensate Mr Wasinski for the injustice done to him. Another high profile case on the Northwest coast was a rapist named Mr Dare who received a pathetically light sentence that Mr Kons also refuses to rectify.
How ironic it is that Michael Hodgman MHA is now the one applying the blow torch to Steve Kons in an effort to get him to seek justice for the victims of these crimes. Lets hope that Hodgman continues to shame the justice minister into doing his job. If Kons has to be dragged into action kicking and screaming, then so be it. We all want to see justice for the victims and Mr Wasinski. |
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By: mrbigshot_1
12/04/2008
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| Even more pressure on the justice minister now, over a completely different issue. Looks like Steve Kons political career could be heading for the paper shreder. |
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By: wadejohn75
15/04/2008
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Here's a view of the forestry industry as it exists in Tasmania today.
"The logging industry in Tasmania is a self-policing, self-regulating monopsony (monopoly buyer) that profits from removal of public resources but is exempt from resource, planning and accountability laws that apply to everyone else, thereby helping them to dominate any competition for scarce resources. This same industry sits on panels that control the use of those resources, gets control of land 'in perpetuity', hears and judges public cases against itself, and has enormous impacts on water supplies but is unaccountable for them.
The industry currently costs the public an average of $280 million per year (Tas) in mixed subsidies, cost relief and exclusions, but only returns some $70 million as profits to it's shareholders. Their activities include clear felling Tasmania's forests, napalming and poisoning wildlife, releasing large amounts of carbon, converting scarce food producing land to trees, contaminating water supplies and increasing road risks.
In Tasmania, the logging industry is effectively a law unto itself.
The industry's activities are now set to be massively expanded following the approval of a 'world scale' pulp mill in a process that excluded public inputs. New requirements, such as water, are also to be subsidised, raising the total recurrent costs to around $350 million each year, and placing other industries that rely on the same resources (land, fresh water, forests and sea) into unknown jeopardy. The actual 'approval' process used did not assess the socio-economic impacts of the proposal, instead a pulp mill supplier, associated with the project (Sweco Pic), was paid to 'approve' the mill". |
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