Cable Car

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader and Member for Clark

The 6,000 or more Tasmanians who gathered in protest in the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington last May stand ready to defend the mountain from the Mt Wellington Cableway Company and their enablers in both the major parties.

The proponent has lodged a Development Application with Hobart City Council today. 

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader and Member for Clark

It is a complete distortion of fact for Minister Gutwein to claim he wants the divisive kunanyi/Mt Wellington cable car to ‘stand on its own two feet.’

The Liberals have been propping up this project from Day One.

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader

The Leader of Government Business in the Legislative Council, Leonie Hiscutt MLC, is in political la-la land if she thinks Labor stands for the environment. If only that was the case.

Ms Hiscutt obviously isn’t paying much attention to the facts. 

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader and Member for Clark

The Hodgman Liberals have proven once again they are a government in lock step with big business in their latest move to progress a commercial cable car on kunanyi/Mt Wellington.

Cassy O’Connor | Greens’ Leader and Member for Denison

In Parliament today, the Premier refused to rule out further tangible support for the proposed cable car.

Over the past five years in government, the Liberals have done everything possible to get a cable car across the Organ Pipes to the summit of kunanyi.

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens' Leader and Member for Denison 

Draft legislation to oil the wheels for a private cable car development on kunanyi/Mt Wellington is the worst piece of enabling legislation to hit the Tasmanian Parliament since Paul Lennon and John Gay's Pulp Mill Assessment Act 2007.

State Growth Minister, Matthew Groom, seems to be celebrating the ten year anniversary of the corrupt pulp mill enabling legislation with a special law that gifts a public asset to enable a single private development.

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens' Leader and Member for Denison

Labor Leader, Rebecca White, has confirmed her party supports the construction of a cable car on kunanyi/Mt Wellington.*

Again, the Liberals and Labor are together working against the environment.

Yesterday, Labor voted in support of the Liberals on fish farms, today it's the mountain.

Both parties want to scar Hobart's beautiful mountain back drop and compromise the natural values that set Tasmania apart from everywhere else.