[Greens-Media] ADVISORY: Auditor General's report on Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement Grants

[O'Connor, Cassy (Sen C. Milne)]

> More questions to be answered by Commonwealth and State Governments on
> forest industry slush fund
> 
> Australian Greens' Senator, Christine Milne, and Tasmanian Greens'
> Leader, Peg Putt, will hold a joint media conference today to comment
> on the Auditor General's damning report on the administration of the
> Tasmanian Community Forests' Agreement grants scheme.
> 
> In his report released yesterday, the Auditor General found the scheme
> lacked transparency and due diligence.  It raises key questions about
> the use of millions of dollars in public funds to prop up the forest
> industry in Tasmania.
> 
> The report can be found at: http://www.anao.gov.au/
> 
> Senator Milne is calling on the Rudd Government to establish an
> Inquiry into the scheme and to freeze all funding allocations pending
> the results of that Inquiry.
> 
> Peg Putt will also be making available additional information gathered
> under Freedom of Information.
> 
> WHERE:   Media room, Parliament House Hobart.
> 
> WHEN:  2.00 pm today.
> 
> For more information:    Cassy O'Connor  03 6224 8899  or Cath Hughes
> 0419 886 304
> 
> Cassy O'Connor
> Adviser
> Senator Christine Milne
> 
> First floor
> Murray St Pier
> Murray St, Hobart 7000
> (ph) 03 6224 8899
> (fax)  03 6224 7599
> www.christinemilne.org.au
> http://www.youtube.com/senatormilne
> 
> "We must all have a great sense of responsibility and not let things
> happen because everyone takes the comfortable view that someone else
> is looking after it. Someone else isn't looking after it." - Rachel
> Carson, 1962
> 
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