tyabblemons Said:

Short video on this issue: https://www.facebook.com/GreatForestNP/videos/822487801220705/

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A video by Little Red Toolangi Tree House

Number	Name	Common name	Type	Diameter @ 1.5m
RU001	Jack	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	1.37
RU002	Olivia	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 0.80
RU003	William		?	≥ 1.27
RU004	Charlotte		?	≥ 1.27
RU005	Oliver	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU006	Ruby	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU007	Ethan	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU008	Chloe	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU009	Thomas	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU010	Mia	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	1.15
RU011	Noah	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU012	Emily	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU013	James	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU014	Ava	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU015	Lucas	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU016	Amelia	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU017	Alexander	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 0.80
RU018	Sophie		?	≥ 1.27
RU019	Joshua	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU020	Zoe	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 0.80
RU021	Cooper	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU022	Siena	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	1.32
RU023	Lachlan		?	≥ 0.80
RU024	Isabella	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 0.80
RU025	Xavier	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU026	Ella	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU027	Max	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU028	Lily	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU029	Liam	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU030	Grace	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU031	Samuel	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU032	Matilda	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU033	Oscar		?	≥ 1.27
RU034	Scarlett	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU035	Mason		?	≥ 0.80
RU036	Isla	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 0.80
RU037	Charlie	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU038	Emma	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU039	Benjamin	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU040	Hannah		?	≥ 1.27
RU041	Jacob	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU042	Evie	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU043	Harry		?	≥ 1.27
RU044	Eva	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU045	Henry	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU046	Isabelle	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU047	Ryan		?	≥ 1.27
RU048	Sophia		?	≥ 1.27
RU049	Riley	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU050	Lucy		?	≥ 0.80
RU051	Harrison	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU052	Zara	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU053	Isaac	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU054	Ivy		?	≥ 1.27
RU055	Levi	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU056	Jasmine	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU057	Daniel		?	≥ 1.27
RU058	Harper	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU059	Archie	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU060	Jessica	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU061	Tyler	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU062	Madison		?	≥ 1.27
RU063	Sebastian		?	≥ 1.27
RU064	Audrey	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU065	Logan	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	1.17
RU066	Willow	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU067	Patrick	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU068	Alice	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	1.03
RU069	Jackson	Messmate (Stringybark)	E. obliqua	≥ 1.27
RU070	Milla	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	1.21
RU071	Flynn		?	≥ 1.27
RU072	Georgia		?	≥ 1.27
RU073	Blake	Mountain Ash	E. regnans	1.01
RU074	Abigail	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU075	Jayden		?	≥ 1.27
RU076	Maddison		?	≥ 1.27
RU077	Hunter		?	≥ 1.27
RU078	Sarah	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU079	Matthew	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU080	Stella	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU081	Hugo	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU082	Maya	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU083	Angus	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU084	Layla	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU085	Edward		?	≥ 0.80
RU086	Alexis	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU087	Dylan		?	≥ 1.27
RU088	Mackenzie	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU089	Luke	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU090	Summer		?	≥ 1.27
RU091	Zachary	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU092	Mila	Mountain Ash	E. regnans	1.26
RU093	Nicholas	Mountain Ash	E. regnans	1.31
RU094	Chelsea	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU095	Archer	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU096	Imogen	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU097	Aiden	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU098	Elizabeth	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27
RU099	Jake		?	≥ 1.27
RU100	Lilly	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	1.06
RU101	Hudson	Mountain Grey Gum	E. cypelocarpa	≥ 1.27

Dear Minister Hunt,

I will admit to being absolutely terrified. The changes I have seen since your government took office has shocked me into some kind of stupor.

In correspondence prior to the election, you told me that I wouldn't always agree with your methods, but you asked me to trust you. You were right about one thing. I have not agreed with one single thing you have done since you came into office!

As for trust - I only confided to Neale Burgess yesterday that you were the ONLY member of the current government that I trusted. Due to our great working relationship, established over many years, I trusted you.

You hold the Howard/Ruddock years as a trophy case for your government, but I remember my horror well at the dehumanisation of refugees during this time. I don't think it's an example of good government policy - I think it's an example of government failure. Now, classifying the information about boat arrivals is a political master-stroke, I admit. But the ethical and moral implications of what your government has done are abhorrent. You will most likely succeed in removing boat arrivals from the public consciousness - but I tell you, there will be people like myself who will not stop trying to help refugees. I wrote to you about refugees during the election; I trusted you. I understand that you are bound by the Liberal Party, and your government's policy.

I trusted you because I believed in the great opportunity that I, as a constituent of yours, now had. I could write to you about environment and conservation issues, and feel that I was making a difference. There is no good to be gained by working in opposition to you, except perhaps the protection of my rights.

Your Liberal colleague, Neale Burgess MP, has spent long hours convincing me that it was not the Liberal Party standing in the way of reform on the conservation of our forests. This means the National Party have had to field tough questions about the management of our forests, and why it is costing the Victorian Taxpayer $1.50 per tonne to clear-fell Leadbeater's Possum habitat, making Leadbeater's Possum extinct. Recently, the State LNP Government announced expansion into western Victoria - they would begin to log Mt Cole, near Ararat. We spent millions of dollars working to remove logging from the state's western forests. This is a giant, backward step by the state government, who are desperate to promote the logging industry in Victoria. I maintain there is room here for a logging industry, and the mill at Maryvale, but we need to diversify onto the plantation timber, and help farmers and investors who are going to the wall as I write. The federal government's position supporting the plunder of our natural resources has been noted. You said before the election, you hoped the states would do the right thing:

"We will allow the current process between the states to be determined by the states.
My hope is that they will have some form of agreement and accommodation that will help the possum, it's a magnificent animal.
It's one of our iconic national species." - Greg Hunt MP, ABC AM, 20/8/13

Well, I'm writing to tell you they have not done the right thing. They have logged a critically sensitive ecosystem at Nolan's Gully, Toolangi, Victoria, Australia. I tried to alert you and asked for help to call a temporary halt to this logging, but you only responded that you couldn't squeeze in a visit to Nolan's Gully, nor could you meet with local elders, the Knitting Nannas of Toolangi. I understand you were very busy with the election. We don't think the timing of this logging was accidental - the public at large were distracted by the election, but we were still able to run a successful campaign. We didn't save the habitat, unfortunately. 5 more coupes are planned there. I showed a picture to Neale Burgess of a tree dropped at Toolangi that upset him greatly. It is my belief that Mr Burgess knows in his heart that what the government are doing is not only making Leadbeater's Possum extinct, it's costing the taxpayer money to do it. They need money, Mr Hunt, and they could save a lot by shutting down the logging of state forest and turning it over to private enterprise. They are locked in by ancient contracts. You could solve this - you could eliminate their 'sovereign risk' if you passed laws above their head - they could argue they had no control over Federal laws and could not be expected to foresee the near extinction of Leadbeater's Possum. Your leadership could save the forests, and the possum.

But my greatest concern, is that you are using a similar technique to dealing with boat arrivals to shut down public information about the damage the states are doing to our natural resources, by passing laws to prohibit people like me from engaging in peaceful protest, and also educating the consumer about the repercussions of the consumer choices they are making: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/companies-to-get-protection-from-activists-boycotts/story-fn59niix-1226724817535

People's rights are taken away in tiny, hard to detect ways, and never in large blocks. In such a way, you will make it illegal for me to engage in peaceful protest of the kind I have been engaged in, in the electorates of Flinders and Hastings. I have warned consumers about the damage Reflex paper is doing in our community, and how it impacts of the state forest. I have done this by leaving information for consumers wherever they find Reflex paper. The result is then captured, and posted to social media, where the protest lives on long after the actual signs have been removed. We have encouraged consumers to purchase post-consumer recycled printing paper. This is best for the environment.

I cannot believe you will persevere with these laws. You are not serving the environment with such laws - you are serving the interests of big-business and eco-vandals. Is the position of Environment Minister another name for the Abbott Government Minister for Destruction of the Environment? You are trying to remove World Heritage Listing from part of Tasmanian forests. You are blocking the planned introduction of marine parks in the Great Barrier reef, which is already under tremendous strain from climate-change and state government industrial developments. Your environment policy is making Leadbeater's Possum extinct.

It appears to me that your office is swamped. You simply can't set up the infrastructure you need to serve as Environment Minister fast enough. You haven't even acknowledged receipt of my last emails to you, so I assume your staff are overloaded, and you can't appoint more staff quick enough to deal with the workload - you have NEVER not replied to an email from me before. I understand why this is, but I will point out that while you are preoccupied with developing this massive infrastructure, the electorate of Flinders is not receiving your attention. You aren't even responding to traffic - not even to say to me that you have received the traffic, but that systems are overloaded and there will be a delay before a response is received.

How can I possibly trust a man who is removing my right to peacefully protest?

All the good work that Neale Burgess has done convincing me that it was not the Liberal Party standing in the way of reform is now down the gutter, washed away by your decisions since becoming Minister. I can easily see that you support the state-sanctioned plunder of our natural resources. I can easily see that it is the Liberal Party who are killing the environment - helped along by the State Nationals.

I humbly request that you take the time to communicate with me about your intentions. Hiding the extinction of Leadbeater's Possum is not going to work like hiding the refugees will.

Yours with great respect,

Brad Lemon
Former Lieutenant/Secretary Tyabb Fire Brigade 2000-2006

@tyabblemons
23rd September, 2013.

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23/09/2013 6:11 PM

Hello Minister Hunt and Mr Burgess,

This post is still legal in Australia:

But if the Liberal Party get their way, and your proposed laws are passed, I won't be able to say this, most likely.

With great respect,

Brad Lemon

Former Lieutenant/Secretary Tyabb Fire Brigade 2000-2006

@tyabblemons

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24/9/13 3.57pm: