Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens’ Leader and Parks spokesperson
Record visitor numbers in Tasmania’s National Parks in the past financial year reinforces the need to better manage and preserve our protected areas, rather than opening them up to ever increasing visitor numbers and increased commercial exploitation.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens’ Leader and Parks spokesperson
It’s clear the Liberals have once again kowtowed to the powerful shooting lobby with their decision to open up Tasmania’s protected areas for recreational shooting, under the guise of environmental management.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader
Good morning extended Green tribe! It's lovely to see your faces and to personally thank you for travelling from wherever you came to be here in beautiful Deloraine.
Thank you, particularly to all the Lyons members and their helpers for bringing us all together this weekend.
We meet on the traditional lands of the Pallittorre people, who - as it was for unknown thousands of the first Tasmanians - were removed from their country by trickery, force, at the point of a gun.
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 and Parks spokesperson
At a time when Tasmanians should be celebrating this year’s centenary of Tasmania’s world class national parks and reserves, they are instead learning the details of the Liberal Government’s neglect and underfunding of the Parks and Wildlife Service.
With the Federal Liberals splashing public money on unapproved private developments in Tasmania's reserves, questions need to be answered about an apparent perversion of process and their priorities.
Private interests, among them the Farrell family, are the beneficiaries of $22 million in public funding being promised by the Liberals to shore up their Northern seats.
Cassy O'Connor MP | Greens Leader and Parks spokesperson
The full extent of the Liberals' destructive plan for the Freycinet National Park has been revealed by a group of concerned Coles Bay residents, business and shack owners.
The overlay map released publicly today shows that Minister Groom plans to open the entire Coles Bay Visitor Services Zone to new commercial leases and tourism development.
