3:15PM Jess McGuire | Did you know Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull catches the bus and ferry to and from work each day? We didn’t, until today. This fact mildly interested us.
Something else that mildly interested us was news that some high profile Australians have
decided to collaborate in an effort to become an irritating bee in Malcolm’s electoral bonnet.
High-profile figures such as actor Rachel Ward and former tennis star John Newcombe have joined the battle against the proposed Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania’s picturesque Tamar Valley.
An advertisement organised by Geoffrey Cousins, a former adviser to Prime Minister John Howard, has been signed by more than 120 people.
It will appear in tomorrow’s Wentworth Courier, in Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s marginal electorate.
Among the signatories are film director Phillip Noyce, actors Bryan Brown and Rebecca Gibney, playwright David Williamson, celebrity chef Kylie Kwong, Fairfax Media deputy chairman Mark Burrows, Rowena Danziger, a member of the Publishing and Broadcasting board, and Leo Schofield, a former director of the Sydney Festival. The ad urges the public to contact Mr Turnbull’s office to ask him to allow “a full and just public hearing” on the pulp mill.
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The ad says: “Is Malcolm Turnbull the Minister for the Environment or the Minister Against the Environment?” It says Mr Turnbull can insist on all voices being heard. “But will he? So many questions, so far no answers … Will Malcolm Turnbull insist that a proper public hearing be implemented before he decides on the building of one of the world’s largest pulp mills in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley?
When Kylie Kwong and the ex-Mrs Jack Jones from Southern Sons have teamed up to conspire against you, it is time to take heed. Your move, Mr Turnbull.
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