Speech to anti-pulp mill rally
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 02:53AM This is the text of a speech read out at an anti-pulp mill rally at Beaconsfield, Tasmania, on Sunday 4 October 2009.
A message from Independent candidate for Denison Andrew Wilkie
I oppose this pulp mill - I always have and I always will - because it is not pollution free, it is not water and energy efficient, it is not sustainably supplied, it is not located where the locals want it and it was not assessed by a process we can trust.
I remain appalled by the stench in the air from the corruption about this project. Corruption in that the Lennon/Bartlett Governments lack the inherent integrity to govern in the public interest; prepared instead to bully, deceive and abandon proper process in the pursuit of their misguided goals.
The Bartlett Government simply doesn’t understand the meaning of the term ‘good governance’. Some of the key players don’t even seem to understand the value of the appearance of good governance.
This issue is about right and wrong and about the importance of putting the public interest in Tasmania ahead of a handful of commercial interests. After all no company, regardless of its size or the weight of its political patronage, has any right to jeopardise our economic, social or environmental future.
The heroes of campaigns past have shown us what can be achieved by ordinary people prepared to stand up to power for what is right, regardless of the odds. This time around we share the power to vote down the majority rule of the Bartlett Government and to replace it with a new Parliament prepared to seize the moment and overturn all approvals for this stinking mill.
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