Less than a week from Tasmania's state election, thousands of people march in Hobart in protest against the logging of native forests, with veteran campaigner Bob Brown saying 'our job is to get rid of the Earth destroyers'. The Liberals vow they will ramp up the timber harvest if re-elected.
With the state election looming, the Tasmanian Liberals have vowed they plan to ramp up the logging of Tasmania's native forests, dismissing the call to end the practice as an "anti-jobs pledge".
Anti-logging campaigner and former federal Greens leader Brown said the protest was the "biggest pre-election crowd" that he had ever seen. "The Liberals are the strongest supporters of Tasmania's high-value native forestry industry, backing in Tasmanian sawmillers, contractors, and local jobs," Liberal Leader Jeremy Rockliff said.
Labor has promised, if elected after the March 23 poll, to launch an independent review into the state's native and plantation forests available for logging. "I think the crowd here today shows that the vast majority of people do have a real passion for environmental issues."
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