I think Graeme should be applauded for his passionate letter which gives an extremely accurate summary of the situation here in Tasmania where we rank last in every economic indices due to ratbaggery perpetrated for many years by the tree-hugging greenies which was then given supposed legitimacy by the Labor/Green alliances at both a Federal level and the one that still exists here…hopefully, only until March. With the efforts of Will Hodgman, Jeremy Rockliff, Adam Brooks, Andrew Nicolic, Brett Whiteley, Eric Hutchinson, et.al, Tasmania will, once again, be open for business!!! Even if you dont live/work in Tassie, it is well worth a read. Thank you Graeme for expressing what so many of us are thinking. Elphinstone Engineering Aust. Pty. Ltd. ACN 009 533 984 Trading as: Elphinstone Engineering PO Box 55, Triabunna. Tasmania. Australia 7190 Phone: (03) 6257 3242 Int’l. (613)-6257 3242 Fax: (03) 6257 3573 Int’l. (613)-6257 3573 E-mail: [email protected] Internet Site: elph.au Christine Milne re Livelihoods.doc 2nd December 2014 Senator Christine Milne Parliament House CANBERRA ACT Email: [email protected]+ Dear Senator You, Bob Brown and your misleading following have ruined the livelihoods and way of life for many good genuine hardworking Tasmanians who were legally earning a living! These same people supported, by the taxes they paid and their generosity, many other Tasmanians who were less fortunate than themselves. This was taken away by the direct and indirect actions of the Greens. So now that one of your group; suspected of illegal practices, is being held in another country, you are pleading for help for him. You are just a plain hypocrite! You, Bob Brown, Nick McKim and all your followers are responsible for many people’s hardships that are far worse than Mr. Russell’s. Many of these people were employees in No. 1 primary jobs. Just in case you do not understand what primary jobs are and how important they are to our economy I feel I should point out • A No. 1 primary job for a Tasmanian is working on jobs that contributes to bringing money from outside Australia into Australia • No. 2 primary job for a Tasmania is working on jobs that bring money from mainland Australia into Tasmania • No. 3 primary job for say a Triabunna person is working in a job that brings money into Triabunna from other parts of Tasmania. Without these primary jobs you cannot support all the services a town, State or country requires such as builders, road building, schools, hospitals, Police, doctors, nurses, Councils, supermarkets, hotels, plumbers, electricians and all other services. Every job that has contributed to the production and export of woodchips has been a No. 1 primary job. This includes Forestry Tasmania employees who plan and look after our resources; the logging contractors, the cartage contractors, the equipment manufacturers in Australia, the spare parts manufacturers, the repair shops and service providers, the takeaway stores that provide meals and coffees. The flow-on is enormous. For 40 years the majority of our woodchips was the by-product of sawmilling which helped make our timber products be produced at a lower cost. We were also selling what had in the past had created more fuel for bush fires and had been waste. We created better forestry practices and the woodchip sales allowed logging companies to build better access roads and paid for re-planting of our forests and sometimes paid to clear land for farming. It allowed us to develop and build safer machines and transport equipment. It allowed some people to develop other export businesses (No. 1 primary jobs). In our business, for instance from the experience gained by building equipment to withstand the harshness of log transport, we were able to develop equipment to work in Antarctica; hence an export business and No. 1 primary jobs. Without our woodchip industry we would not have been able to do this. We build equipment for use in Antarctica every year and have done so consistently for the past 20 years but this is not a sustainable business on its own. We would not have had it if it was not for the forest industry. We have developed many products to last in log transport which we now sell into the general transport industry. Again this would not have been able to be done if it was not for forestry. We developed the use of on-vehicle weighing systems which are now widely used in many other transport and industrial applications. The development of this came from a need in the woodchip log transport. Many of our tourist industry providers such as hotels, restaurants, takeaway shops, service stations; just to name some, have found their core business relied on the forest industry and gave them an income all year round and kept them open in the off season. Going forward we need to get this State back on the rails and we need to stand on our own feet, create primary jobs, get a pulp mill up and running so we can utilise the plantation fibre that has been developed from utilising a waste product of our forest industry. Yours sincerely Graeme J Elphinstone MANAGING DIRECTOR LEADERS IN DESIGN TECHNOLOGY FOR THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY AND ON-VEHICLE WEIGHING SYSTEMS - SINCE 1976 - (Please note: This was sent on an Elphinstone letterhead.)
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