[Greens-Media] Tas Greens_DPAC Annual Report Shows Nearly $200 000 on Pulp Mill Advertising_N McKim MP

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DPAC PULP MILL ADVERTISING SPEND CONSTITUTES OBSCENE CORPORATE WELFARE
 
Nick McKim MP
Greens Opposition Leader

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Contact: State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens, (03) 6233
8300

www.tas.greens.org.au


The Tasmanian Greens today responded to revelations contained in the
Department of Premier and Cabinet Annual Report that the government
spent nearly $200 000 advertising in support of Gunns Ltd's pulp mill,
describing it as 'corporate welfare on an obscene scale'.

Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that the expenditure of $189 289 on
advertising in support of the mill was outrageous, and called on Premier
David Bartlett to apologise to the Tasmanian community for the gross
misuse of taxpayer funds.

"This is corporate welfare on an obscene scale, with taxpayers money
spent on a propaganda campaign in support of a toxic and unpopular
private project."

 "I wonder how homeless Tasmanians, or people waiting for elective
surgery, would feel about money which should have been spent improving
the lives of Tasmanians instead used to promote a polluting pulp mill."





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