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Byron Shire
April 25, 2024

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How dare we have to listen to taxpayer-paid politicians lying and telling us that Forestry Corporation of NSW is doing a good job in OUR forests. Why then did forestry copr.get fined more than half a million dollars in the last six months? And guess who is paying that bill on top of the $20M+ they cost the public annually? It sickens me that I’m so happy that Tasmania’s forest operating team will now finally advise the public where they will go and log next. Isn’t that amazing!? 2022 and we’re experiencing a climate catastrophe. Very encouraging to see the that Victoria’s Forestry Corporation got ordered by the Victorian Supreme Court to get out of most of their logging coupes, because they broke their own rules and didn’t leave enough trees for the survival of some animals.

Are we all aware that our government hands out over 20,000 dollars each minute of the day to the fossil fuel industry? Isn’t it time that we start taking these politicians, who throw taxpayers’ money to companies who are hardly paying any taxes, to the International Court of Justice (Den Haag) for crimes against humanity – stealing from and killing communities?

As science tell us, Australia is on the forefront of experiencing the impact of the climate catastrophe as we see it unfolding right now more and more. Which country in the world will take us in as environmental refugees after we’ve treated ours so inhumanely and threw so much money into the fossil fuel industries?

Chibo Mertineit, Nimbin


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7 COMMENTS

  1. I’m assuming you actually believe your repeated subsidy lie. [the govt. gives the fossil fuel industry $20,000 every minute.] Even Mandy Nolan was cunning enough to use “tax breaks” in place of “subsidies” in a recent diatribe indicating she knows the subsidy nonsense is actually a left lie. No doubt many of her gullible minions bought the nonsense.

    • David F, keep believing that the Fossil Fuel Industry doesn’t receive ‘subsidies’, it might just come true.
      The Australia Institute has been on the case and on the money – government S u b s i d i e s of $’s10billions plus per annum.
      You don’t like reading about it, bad luck for you.

      Lets see the $’s10billions plus per annum withdrawn and cue the FF Industry screaming of, ‘where’s OUR $’s subsidies’. Oh they wouldn’t do that would they now. They’ll just tip in their own $’s10billions plus per annum, because they don’t receive subsidies. yeah.
      Foreign owned fossil fuel companies; destroying the climate that causes us / Australia immense human pain with cascading climate disasters and having to spend $’sbillions to clean up the mess each time; paying little or no tax; sending their profits back home to overseas owners and we / Australia say thanks for all that, here’s S u s i d i e s of $’s10billions per annum to keep up the great work – how dumbass is that.

      • Last time we had this discussion, I asked you to name a subsidy. You didn’t. So again, name a subsidy. The labor party, the few remaining honest Greens, the Productivity Commission, the Parliamentary Library just to name a few all say there are no, or very minimal subsidies. But the Australia Institute says there is, so in your world there is.

        • David F, The Australia Institute has done all the identifying, as I have mentioned to you in this article and in a previous article.
          Again, you can dial up their reports and read, but no, you don’t want to know and just carry on with denials.
          As for “keep on topic”, I’ve stayed the course. But again, the for you uncomfortable reading is a, No.

  2. Excuse me for butting in but I’m also interested in what these “subsidies” are, the Greens constantly push this misleading claim for obvious reasons; the only major “subsidies” I’m aware of that both sides of politics grant mining companies is exemption from paying excise on diesel fuel, similar to what primary producers receive, because their heavy farm machinery doesn’t normally use public roads, and that does make reasonable sense. And when large mining projects commence there is usually an initial tax free period where the company doesn’t pay tax to the Federal Govt and royalties to the State Govts until the mine starts exporting the product, you can argue about the merits of that if you want. And don’t conveniently forget, it was a Labor Govt that imposed a supa-profits tax on the mining industry that, if that f…wit Tony Abbott had not repealed, would presently be collecting big bucks because of the current high world prices of minerals, most of all coal, it is an imperfect world.

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