Victorian Premiers broken conservation promises
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When the Premier is a liar who can you trust? In 1995 John Brumby was the leader of the Victorian Labor party then in opposition. In this clip from 1995 we see John Brumby speak with passion declaring if elected a Labor government would end all logging in High Conservation Value old-growth forests, end all export wood chipping in Victoria and move the logging industry completely out of old-growth forests and into Plantations.
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| Produced by | John Flyn |
| Directed by | John Flyn |
| Produced | Dec 15, 2007 |
| Production Company | FLYN'S PRODUCTIONS |
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When the Premier is a liar who can you trust ?? In 1995 John Brumby was the leader of the Victorian Labor party then in opposition. In this clip from 1995 we see John Brumby speak with passion declaring if elected a Labor government would end all logging in High Conservation Value old-growth forests, end all export wood chipping in Victoria and move the logging industry completely out of old-growth forests and into Plantations.
Since gaining power the Labor government has logged the iconic Goolengook rainforest, increased export wood chipping , and subsidized the native forest logging industry so it can compete with the plantation logging industry. In the run up to the 2006 state election the then Premier Steve Bracks promised that should his government be returned to office it would immediately - protect the Goolengook forest in national park, and add an addition 30,000 hectares of East Gippsland's old-growth forest to national parks. To date not one of these promises has been honored and logging is continuing in the states last areas of old- growth forest.
