Cassy O'Connor MP | Greens Leader and Parks spokesperson
On this weekend's centenary of national parks, Parks Minister, Matthew Groom, should admit Tasmania's protected areas are under unprecedented threat as a result of Liberal policies.
Mr Groom sure has a hide, trumpeting the State's national parks at the same time as his government is opening them up to far greater commercial exploitation.
Cassy O'Connor MP | Greens Leader
The Greens welcome the World Heritage Committee's request to implement the recommendations of their expert mission.
In light of the Committee's call for strict criteria to be developed for tourism in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Minister Groom needs to call an immediate stop to rubber stamping the flawed draft TWWHA Management Plan.
Rosalie Woodruff MP | Greens Fire spokesperson
The Bushfire Inquiry findings paint over the devastation of the summer bushfires in the World Heritage Area. It's as though they never existed.
Not one single recommendation in the Committee's report calls to review procedures or respond to climate change. These were two of the key reasons for submitting a dissenting report. *
Because of the Committee's membership, it was always going to be a whitewash but the denial around the need to change our response to bushfire management is mind-boggling.
