Women against woodchipping

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Women against woodchipping

By Kathy Pinkus

HOBART — On May 19, 150 women rallied on Parliament House lawns in an action organised by the Wilderness Society and called "Women against woodchipping".

Speakers attacked the regional forestry agreement, which condemns Tasmanian forests to unlimited woodchipping. The rally focused on the major parties' selling out of the Tarkine rainforest, Beach Creek tall eucalypts and Mother Cummings ancient alpine forests.

Penny Law, spokesperson from Everyone for a Nuclear Free Future (ENuFF), said it is important to draw links between the federal government's destruction of the environment through woodchipping, its opposition to native title and its backing of uranium mining.

Neither the ALP nor Liberals can say they are "clean and green" when spending on the environment is just 10% of the defence budget, said Law.

Greens MP Christine Milne also spoke.

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