I was just reading the April/May 2008 issue of Wild Magazine. I hadn’t read it in many years and was curious about the very strong bent against native forestry in Victoria. What caught my eye was the Pg 50 articles strong stance against the logging of 1939 regrowth forest in Victoria’s easte Gippsland. So I wondered what the magazine is printed on. In the editorial section it indicates that the magazine is printed upon Monza paper which is 55% from waste product paper. I therefore wondered where the other 45% comes from. Turns out (and read the fact sheet) that the virgin wood fibre comes from Forest Stewardship Council FSC certified forests (the paper is made in Italy). It turns out that one of the sources is USA native forest. The likely the age of this forest (probably douglas fir) makes the 1939 regrowth forest being logged on page 50 look like yesterdays newborn child by comparison. Wild Magazine is therefore printed on 45% old growth forest woodchip product which as it happens is just as certified by the FSC as the 1939 regrowth forest. However unlike the victorian wood chip this paper has the added bonus on having all those extra greenhouse emissions associated with transporting woodchip firstly from the USA to Italy to be pulped into paper and then to Australia to be printed upon. The paper isn’t bleached by chlorine — but it does appear that it is washed in an washing machine set on the “eco-wash” setting.
Isn’t it extremely reckless of the Catholic Church to allow an ongoing discussion on its website over this most serious of matters, in which two priests from St Pius X college in adamstown, John Denham and Tom Brennan, are now on trial for crimes related to the abuse of children at that school?
Someone should ask the Telecoms Ombudsman about Telstra’s recent complaint volumes. Seems their customer service has gotten even worse.
I read recently that Bill Shorten utilises FF points more than any other politician, which is commendable. Could Shorten’s new relationship with the Governor General’s daughter, who lives in Brisbane, have seen him spend a disproportionate amount of time there, with most of the trips involving a Friday flight up and a Monday flight back to Canberra?
So Bill Shorten has a girlfriend and travels to see her every weekend, B.F.D. !! As long as he’s paying for the air fares and not claiming Travel Allowances can you please advise me why this rates a mention in this esteemed publication ? The call of hormones is very strong, I’ve known young blokes who regularly DROVE five to six hundred kilometres to spend the weekend with their beloved. A two hour plane trip is a doddle by comparison Am I reading Crikey or New Idea ???
Crikey.com.au readers might like to inform themselves of what those proud supporters of the native forest woodchipping industry have been up to in East Gippsland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEdV5jXOeqw
These images are from November 2008 in our nation. This kind of forest is typically 300 plus year old mature trees with hollow limbs for wildlife habitat – like the Tawny Frogmouth PM Rudd rescued at Kirribilli the other week.
But that 300 years doesn’t explain the significance. It’s the climax stage of a forest from grassland to dry sclerophyl to wet old growth over storey is around 1,000 years to establish. In this place Brown Mountain that forest is been intact since the last ice age, for 10,000 years.
The logs were chipped via Eden in SE NSW for export to Japan for innocent consumers to use in comic books are to wipe their *rse. That’s the quality of ALP Govt we have in this country in Vic, NSW and federally, as well as the Forestry Union with MIchael O’Connor on the national executive. Ex boyfriend of Acting PM Julia Gillard.
In mitigation only, last week Brumby did announce reserves in the redgum forests along the Murray though 75% are nearly dead now. Just vote green.
It is pointless going to the Telephone Industry Ombudsman, they are industry funded and look after the industry. I was treated very badly by a provider and I may well have bashed my head against the wall. The Federal Government needs to have someone else look after and take the complaints for people like myself who have been mistreated. Good on you for bringing this up, can you pursue this with the Feds or Conroy please? I am now with Westnet and their treatment of me has been superb. Previously I had been without a SEND feature on my email for 5 weeks. The provider had to be forced into going to Telstra to fix it. Even though our Tech had said this was the problem in the first place. The TIO are useless.