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Sustainable Timber Tasmania - Logging EmissionsMinister, what's your understanding of the level of emissions from native forest logging each year? Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Dec 2022 |
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Sustainable Timber Tasmania - Forest Stewardship Council certificationIs it still your Government's policy that FT will be FSC certified? Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Dec 2022 |
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Resources – China and WoodchipsThere are not many markets in the world outside China that will accept non-FSC-certified wood products. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 26 Nov 2020 |
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Native Forest LoggingThe planet is experiencing a human-induced climate and biodiversity crisis and there is no justification for native forest logging. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Aug 2020 |
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Sustainable Timber Tasmania - Forest Stewardship CertificationThe auditor rejected STT's application for FSC on the basis of major non-conformities with the Forest Stewardship Standard for sustainability. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 18 Aug 2020 |
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FSC Failure Confirms Liberals Must End Native Forest LoggingLate on Friday, under the cover of a Budget update, so-called ‘Sustainable’ Timber Tasmania finally released the FSC audit report. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 17 Aug 2020 |
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Sustainable Timbers Tasmania Additional CoupesSo-called Sustainable Timbers Tasmania, continued its destructive native forest logging throughout the pandemic emergency. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 25 Jun 2020 |
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Climate Action, Logging of ForestsRosalie Woodruff questions the government over their failure to secure FSC certification. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 26 Sep 2019 |
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Forestry Tasmania FSC CertificationCassy O'Connor asks the Minister to confirm that the latest Forest Stewardship Council audit has resulted in failure to secure FSC certification. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 26 Sep 2019 |
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Estimates Reply - Minister CourtneyIn 2015, the first FFC audit was handed down and it found that Forestry Tasmania was critically non-compliant in a number of areas. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 12 Jun 2019 |
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Barnett's Failure to DeliverThe latest Forestry Tasmania Annual Report demonstrates the continued failure of the Liberals’ commitment to move the business onto a sustainable footing. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 2 Nov 2017 |
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Liberals' Forest FarceLegislation to allow logging in some of the most high conservation value, carbon rich forests on the planet was tabled in State Parliament today. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 14 Mar 2017 |
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Liberals Will Wear Blame if FT Fails in FSC BidForestry Tasmania has made it clear that if 357 000 hectares of high conservation value forest open up to logging, it's bid for FSC will go back to square one. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 12 Feb 2017 |
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Why Radio Silence on Macquarie Point Native Forest Exports?It is now more than four months since the Liberals announced that Hobart's port would be turned into a woodchip and log export facility. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 5 Feb 2017 |
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FSC Certification Pipe DreamForestry Tasmania is almost two years behind schedule on achieving forest stewardship certification, a goal that appears to be disappearing out of reach for FT. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 27 Oct 2016 |
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Liberals Shuffling Deck Chairs on Forestry's TitanicThe Tasmanian Liberals are being highly transparent in their desire to create unnecessary conflict over forests in the lead up to the election. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 26 Oct 2016 |
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Minister Barnett in Cloud Cuckoo Land on FSCThe Minister is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks Forestry Tasmania can secure Forest Stewardship Certification under current Liberal policies. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 9 Sep 2016 |
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Forest Stewardship CertificationYesterday the Minister failed to state your Government's commitment to Forestry Tasmania achieving Forest Stewardship Council certification. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 26 Aug 2016 |
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Resources Minister Misleads Parliament over Forestry JobsResources Minister, Guy Barnett, needs to back up his claim that there are 'thousands' of Tasmanians employed in the native forest industry. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 25 Aug 2016 |
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Delusional Resources Minister Backs in Forest Furnaces, not FSCIn Question Time today, Resources Minister, Guy Barnett, displayed extraordinary ignorance in describing the burning of native forests for energy as renewable. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 24 Aug 2016 |
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Forestry EOI Process Won't Revive Native Forest LoggingThe Minister for Forests is dreaming if he believes there is a viable future in native forest woodchip or whole log exports. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 8 Jul 2016 |
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Forestry Minister Walking Away from FSCPeter Gutwein has confirmed the Liberals in government are doing nothing to support Forestry Tasmania’s bid for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 7 Jun 2016 |
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Greens Still Standing Alone on Protection of the Swift ParrotIn 2015, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the swift parrot, the world's fastest parrot, to be critically endangered. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 3 May 2016 |
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Police Escort for Forestry Over The TopThe community has been explicit they would not be staging direct protest action and a police escort was completely unnecessary. Andrea Dawkins | Media Release | 20 Apr 2016 |
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State of the State Address in ReplyOn behalf of the Tasmanian Greens MPs, I pay respect to the palawa/pakana people of Tasmania, to their treasured elders, past and present. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 15 Mar 2016 |
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FSC Audit Should End Lapoinya and Mutual Valley LoggingIf Forestry Tasmania ever wants to obtain Forest Stewardship Certification it will have to make significant changes to its practises. Andrea Dawkins | Media Release | 1 Mar 2016 |
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Forest Stewardship CertificationThe long-awaited Forest Stewardship Council audit report on Forestry Tasmania reveals the GBE has a long way to go before it achieves FSC certification. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 1 Mar 2016 |
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Tough Choices Ahead for Minister GutweinThe new Minister for Forests will need to have the courage to make the tough choices Paul Harriss clearly didn't want to make. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 18 Feb 2016 |
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Farewell Paul HarrissThe resignation of Paul Harriss from the Ministry and the Parliament is good news and an acknowledgement of the flawed "forests policy" of this Government. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 17 Feb 2016 |
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Incompetent, Divisive Forests Minister Must ResignResources Minister, Paul Harriss, is presiding over a debacle in his portfolio and all of it, his own making. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 20 Jan 2016 |
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Sustainable Forestry Our FutureThe increase in Tasmania's wood exports are thanks to sustainable private sector plantation-based forestry, not politics or state government intervention. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 11 Jan 2016 |
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FSC Looking Like a Mirage Under HarrissWith 15% of forest operations breaching Forest Protection Plans, Minister Harriss' assertion about a commitment to high environmental standards is a joke. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 18 Nov 2015 |
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Forestry Tasmania Annual Report Smoke and MirrorsForestry Tasmania's Annual Report 2014-15 paints a blithely optimistic picture of the GBE's financial fortunes. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 27 Oct 2015 |
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Another Day, Another Handout to ForestryAfter redirecting $7M allocated exit funding to keep people in the native forest industry, the Liberals are paying another $1M in compensation to contractors. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 20 Oct 2015 |
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Forestry Tasmania Ministerial CharterThe Ministerial Charter that Forestry Tasmania is expected to abide by makes it clear the GBE is being set up to fail, despite the Liberals' rhetoric. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 22 Sep 2015 |
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Forestry Tasmania - FSC Certification (follow up)FSC's auditors, SCS Global, has identified non-conformities in Forestry Tasmania's FSC application. Nick Mckim | Parliamentary Activity | 27 May 2015 |
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Forestry Tasmania - FSC CertificationForestry Tasmania expected to receive the final report from FSC'S auditors, SCS Global, in April. Nick Mckim | Parliamentary Activity | 27 May 2015 |
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FT's FSC UpdateMinister Harriss has confirmed the decision on Forestry Tasmania’s application for Forest Stewardship certification (FSC) has been delayed. Kim Booth | Media Release | 4 Mar 2015 |
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Special Species LoggingThe Forests Minister and the special species timber sector have been challenged to ensure that future Special Species Timber Harvesting Management. Kim Booth | Media Release | 3 Sep 2014 |
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Forestry FSC Under ThreatThe Forests Minister, Paul Harriss, must confirm whether he has sought formal advice from Forestry Tasmania on Forest Stewardship Council certification. Kim Booth | Media Release | 21 Aug 2014 |