понедельник, 27 февраля 2012 г.
Fed: no jobs, no protection, no maps on Tas forests - Labor
AAP General News (Australia)
12-24-2004
Fed: no jobs, no protection, no maps on Tas forests - Labor
CANBERRA, Dec 24 AAP - The federal government has already broken two promises on its
Tasmanian forests plan, producing no maps and no certainty on jobs, the environment or
funding, Labor said today.
Prime Minister John Howard had gotten away with a cynical election ploy in promising
to preserve 170,000 hectares of old-growth forest in the state, opposition environment
spokesman Anthony Albanese said.
Environment Minister Ian Campbell today conceded the government had again failed to
meet a deadline to seal the promised deal on the forests.
The government had promised during the election campaign to have a deal in place to
save 170,000 hectares of forests in Tasmania by December 1 and save thousands of jobs.
After failing to meet that deadline it expressed hope the deal would be finalised by Christmas.
However, Senator Campbell today said the deal between the federal and Tasmanian governments
had still not been finalised.
"You now have no maps, no certainty with regard to areas to be protected but also no
certainty as to employment, industry plans or funding," Mr Albanese told AAP.
"It's pretty extraordinary that every Australian saw the Prime Minister, three days
before the election, trumpeting in Launceston that he had a plan that would involve 170,000
ha, that there was $50 million allocated and that the detail of the plan, as in the maps
of areas to be saved would be released prior to December 1.
"That was a self-imposed deadline.
"When they failed to meet that deadline they set another one of prior to Christmas,
which they've also breached."
Mr Albanese said the government had had nine years to establish a policy to achieve
what the prime minister said was his objectives of saving the old-growth forests and preserving
jobs.
"The visit to Tasmania by the prime minister was nothing more than a cynical election
stunt, rather than a serious policy response to an environmental issue of concern to all
Australians," he said.
Senator Campbell said this morning the process was complicated but he was confident
of a good outcome being achieved.
"I think overwhelmingly the (election) commitments will be kept and that's the prime
minister and the premier both very focused on achieving those goals, and they are not
easy goals to meet," he said.
"But we think that by and large that the two can be met."
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